Aquila chrysaetos simurgh
| Aquila chrysaetos simurgh Temporal range:
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Accipitriformes |
| Family: | Accipitridae |
| Genus: | Aquila |
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| Subspecies: | †A. c. simurgh
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| †Aquila chrysaetos simurgh Weesie, 1988
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Aquila simurgh | |
Aquila chrysaetos simurgh is an extinct subspecies of the widespread golden eagle. Its fossils are found in Crete; it was sometimes evaluated as a full species.[1]
Ecology
It lived during the Pleistocene in Crete with Mammuthus creticus, the smallest known mammoth species.
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