Garganoaetus
Extinct genus of birds
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Garganoaetus is an extinct genus of buteonin accipitrid bird of prey from the early Pliocene in Italy.[3] G. freudenthali was comparable in size to a golden eagle; G. murivorus was hawk sized. Species of Garganoaetus would have lived alongside other Gargano island animals, such as large dormice Stertomys and Hattomys hamsters, the giant, long-skulled Deinogalerix moonrats, an otter, Prolagus pikas, and the multi-horned artiodactyl Hoplitomeryx that it probably hunted.[2]
| Garganoaetus Temporal range: | |
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| G. freudenthali feeding on a Mikrotia sp. | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Accipitriformes |
| Family: | Accipitridae |
| Subfamily: | Buteoninae |
| Genus: | †Garganoaetus Ballmann, 1973 |
| Species | |
