Aquila chrysaetos

A picture published with the record for Aquila chrysaetos.

Smithsonian Institution · CC0 · via Smithsonian. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

Time the record covers

At least 1.7 million years on record.

The record covers at least 1.8 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 3.55 Mya to 0 Mya.

Pliocene — about 1 of 39 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 36 of 39 occurrencesPleistoceneHolocene — about 2 of 39 occurrences3.6–3.5 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences3.5–3.4 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences3.4–3.2 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences3.2–3.1 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences3.1–3.0 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences3.0–2.8 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences2.8–2.7 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences2.7–2.6 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences2.6–2.4 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences2.4–2.3 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences2.3–2.2 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences2.2–2.0 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences2.0–1.9 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences1.9–1.8 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences1.8–1.6 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1.6–1.5 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1.5–1.4 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences1.4–1.2 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences1.2–1.1 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences1.1–945 ka Mya — about 0.3 occurrences945 ka–810 ka Mya — about 0.3 occurrences810 ka–675 ka Mya — about 0.6 occurrences675 ka–540 ka Mya — about 0.7 occurrences540 ka–405 ka Mya — about 0.7 occurrences405 ka–270 ka Mya — about 0.7 occurrences270 ka–135 ka Mya — about 2 occurrences135 ka–0 Mya — about 31 occurrences1.8 Mya11.7 ka4.05 Mya0 Mya

39 occurrences of Aquila chrysaetos on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. Bar height is expected occurrences, not a count: each fossil is spread across the span it is dated to, so a tall narrow bar means tight dating and a low wide one means loose.

When

39 occurrences

These are dates about fossils, not the animal: the record can only begin after it arose and end before it died out, so either end may reach further. Shares are expected occurrences: a fossil dated to a span is counted partly in each period it straddles. More on what this infers.

Found in

4 formations

Gabal Silsila — 24.77°N, 32.95°EShuler — 32.71°N, 96.71°WManix — 34.80°N, 117.00°WBecerra — 19.90°N, 99.13°W

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The named rock units Aquila chrysaetos has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 35 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Aquila chrysaetos and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Aquila chrysaetos and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

1,068 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 39 sites for Aquila chrysaetos, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too. The 24 sharing the most are listed.

This is not a list of everything alive at the time. It is only what has come out of the same ground as this animal and been written down.

Entered from

31 references

Each of the 39 occurrences read was entered from one of these publications, ordered by how many each accounts for. This is not a search for papers mentioning the name. 19 further references are not listed. Entries link to doi.org where the Paleobiology Database holds an identifier, and to its own record where it does not. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

Media content3

Picture of Aquila chrysaetos

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Smithsonian
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Smithsonian Institution
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CC0 — this site’s default, not the record’s
Commercial use
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CT scan

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Specimen
Aquila chrysaetos · CM:Birds:A5214

3D model

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Sketchfab
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This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.