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Aquila undetermined

Year: 2025
Type: other
Abstract: Aquila sp. indet. Location and age: Beremend 38; Lower Pliocene (MN16). Material: 1 distal left tarsometatarsus fragment (Figure 2 /1) and a drawing of it (Figure 2 /2). Dimensions (mm): E—7.7, F—19.2, G—10.7. Description: Typical eagle tarsometatarsus distal epiphysis. The size range of the fossil is between that of Aquila heliaca and Haliaeetus albicilla. The only aquiline known to have lived in the Carpathian Basin during the Neogene is Aquila chrysaetos, which is known from Villány (MN 16) (Jánossy 1977, 1979a). Comparative material: Aquila heliaca (68.4.1); Hieraaetus fasciatus (2010.295.1); Hieraaetus pennatus (2010.296.1). This material is not catalogued, it belongs to the Chapel of Reconciliation in Beremend and will be catalogued in the collection there.
Language: English
Subfield: Paleontology
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W6911951262
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