| Malagasy crowned eagle Temporal range: Holocene
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Extinct (1500)
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Accipitriformes |
| Family: | Accipitridae |
| Genus: | Stephanoaetus |
| Species: | †S. mahery
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| Binomial name | |
| †Stephanoaetus mahery Goodman, 1994
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The Malagasy crowned eagle (Stephanoaetus mahery),[1] also known as the Madagascar crowned hawk-eagle, is an extinct large bird of prey endemic to Madagascar.
It has been proposed that this bird, combined with elephant bird eggs, were the source of sightings of the mythical Roc.[2]
- ^ Goodman, Steven M. (1994). "Description of a new species of subfossil eagle from Madagascar: Stephanoaetus (Aves: Falconiformes) from the deposits of Ampasambazimba". Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington (107): 421–428.
- ^ Hume, Julian P.; Walters, Michael (2012). Extinct birds. Vol. 217. A & C Black (Poyser Imprint). pp. 81–82. ISBN 978-1-4081-5725-1.