Acinonyx pardinensis

Acinonyx pardinensis
Temporal range: Late Pliocene–Middle Pleistocene
Skull, Museum of Paleontology in Florence, Italy
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Carnivora
Suborder: Feliformia
Family: Felidae
Subfamily: Felinae
Genus: Acinonyx
Species:
A. pardinensis
Binomial name
Acinonyx pardinensis
(Croizet & Jobert, 1828)
Synonyms[1]
  • Felis pardinensis Croizet & Jobert, 1828
  • Felis elata Bravard in Gervais, 1859
  • Cynailurus etruscus Del Camp, 1915
  • Cynailurus elatus sensu Schaub, 1939
  • Schaubia vireti Schaub, 1942

Acinonyx pardinensis, sometimes called the Giant cheetah, is an extinct felid species belonging to the genus Acinonyx, closely related to the cheetah, native to Eurasia during the Pliocene and Pleistocene epochs. It was substantially larger than the living cheetah.

  1. ^ Viret, J. (1954). "Le lœss à bancs durcis de Saint-Vallier (Drôme), et sa faune de mammifères villafranchiens (Avec une analyse granulométrique et une analyse pollinique)". Nouvelles Archives du Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle de Lyon. 4: 59. doi:10.3406/mhnly.1954.986. S2CID 194646279.