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Aquila chrysaetos (golden eagle)
Taxonomy
Falco chrysaetos was named by Linnaeus (1758). It is extant. It is the type species of Aquila.
It was misspelled as Aquila chrysaetus by Boule and De Villeneuve (1927) and Zelenkov et al. (2008); it was recombined as Aquila chrysaetos by Hay (1902), Hay (1930), Wetmore (1940), Miller and DeMay (1942), Howard (1955), Wetmore (1956), Parmalee (1958), Howard (1963), Howard (1969), Weesie (1988), Mlikovsky (2002), Bedetti and Pavia (2007), Steadman and Mead (2010), Clements et al. (2017) and Carrera et al. (2018).
It was misspelled as Aquila chrysaetus by Boule and De Villeneuve (1927) and Zelenkov et al. (2008); it was recombined as Aquila chrysaetos by Hay (1902), Hay (1930), Wetmore (1940), Miller and DeMay (1942), Howard (1955), Wetmore (1956), Parmalee (1958), Howard (1963), Howard (1969), Weesie (1988), Mlikovsky (2002), Bedetti and Pavia (2007), Steadman and Mead (2010), Clements et al. (2017) and Carrera et al. (2018).
Subspecies
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
|---|---|
| 1758 | Falco chrysaetos Linnaeus |
| 1902 | Aquila chrysaetos Hay p. 536 |
| 1927 | Aquila chrysaetus Boule and De Villeneuve p. 82 |
| 1930 | Aquila chrysaetos Hay p. 318 |
| 1940 | Aquila chrysaetos Wetmore p. 38 |
| 1942 | Aquila chrysaetos Miller and DeMay p. 101 |
| 1955 | Aquila chrysaetos Howard p. 204 |
| 1956 | Aquila chrysaetos Wetmore p. 47 |
| 1958 | Aquila chrysaetos Parmalee p. 172 |
| 1963 | Aquila chrysaetos Howard p. 17 |
| 1969 | Aquila chrysaetos Howard p. 5 |
| 1988 | Aquila chrysaetos Weesie p. 18 figs. Pl 4, figs 1-5 |
| 2002 | Aquila chrysaetos Mlikovsky p. 193 |
| 2007 | Aquila chrysaetos Bedetti and Pavia p. 491 figs. Pl 1, figs A,B,C,H |
| 2008 | Aquila chrysaetus Zelenkov et al. |
| 2010 | Aquila chrysaetos Steadman and Mead p. 428 |
| 2017 | Aquila chrysaetos Clements et al. |
| 2018 | Aquila chrysaetos Carrera et al. p. 158 figs. Pl 2, fig 6 |
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Aquila chrysaetos Linnaeus 1758 [golden eagle]
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†Aquila chrysaetos simurgh Weesie 1988
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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| References: Naka 2004, Marsh 1875 | |||||
Age range: base of the Villanyian to the top of the Holocene or 3.20000 to 0.00000 Ma
Collections (36 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
|---|---|---|---|
| Villanyian | Hungary (Barany) | Aquila chrysaetos (35369) | |
| Pleistocene | Egypt (Kom Ombo Plain) | Aquila chrysaetos (22531) | |
| Pleistocene | Egypt | Aquila chrysaetos (21890) | |
| Irvingtonian | USA (Maryland) | Aquila chrysaetos (20302) | |
| Irvingtonian | USA (Colorado) | Aquila chrysaetos (152653) | |
| Middle Pleistocene | France (Corse) | Aquila chrysaetos (69062) | |
| Middle Pleistocene - Late/Upper Pleistocene | Monaco | Aquila chrysaetus (191730) | |
| Rancholabrean | Mexico (Sonora) | Aquila chrysaetos (20495) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene | Portugal | Aquila chrysaetos (197768) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene (high glacial) | USA (New Mexico) | Aquila chrysaetos (76059 76060) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene | Jordan | Aquila chrysaetos (197945) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene | USA (Oregon) | Aquila chrysaetos (93251) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene (late glacial) | USA (Florida) | Aquila chrysaetos (154722) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene | France (Corse) | Aquila chrysaetos (215363) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene | USA (California) | Aquila chrysaetos (20273 44954 79630 190077 192611 218989) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene | Italy | Aquila chrysaetos (194932 197773) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene | USA (New Mexico) | Aquila chrysaetos (71670) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene (high glacial) | USA (Texas) | Aquila chrysaetos (93103) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene | Mexico (Mexico) | Aquila chrysaetos (192627) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene | Russian Federation | Aquila chrysaetus (194811) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene | Greece (Crete) | Aquila chrysaetos (192949 192951 192954 192959 192962) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene | USA (Wyoming) | Aquila chrysaetos (93277) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene - Holocene | USA (Utah) | Aquila chrysaetos (93326) | |
| Holocene | France (Corse) | Aquila chrysaetos (215378) | |
| Holocene | USA (Illinois) | Aquila chrysaetos (195052) |