Panthera pardus spelaea

Panthera pardus spelaea; Temporal range: Late Pleistocene PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N ↓
	Skeleton at the Museo di Storia Naturale di Firenze
	Rock art depiction of a leopard from Chauvet Cave
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Carnivora
Suborder:	Feliformia
Family:	Felidae
Subfamily:	Pantherinae
Genus:	Panthera
Species:	P. pardus
Subspecies:	†P. p. spelaea
Trinomial name
	†Panthera pardus spelaea; (Bächler, 1936)
Synonyms
	Felis pardus spelaea Bächler, 1936; Felis antiquus Cuvier, 1835; Panthera pardus antiqua (Cuvier, 1835); Panthera pardus begoueni Fraipoint, 1923; Panthera pardus sickenbergi Schutt, 1969; Panthera pardus vraonensis Nagel, 1999;

Panthera pardus spelaea, also known as the European Ice Age leopard or the cave leopard, is a fossil leopard subspecies which roamed Europe in the Late Pleistocene and possibly the Holocene.^[1]

^ Diedrich, C. G. (2013). "Late Pleistocene leopards across Europe – northernmost European German population, highest elevated records in the Swiss Alps, complete skeletons in the Bosnia Herzegowina Dinarids and comparison to the Ice Age cave art". Quaternary Science Reviews. 76: 167–193. Bibcode:2013QSRv...76..167D. doi:10.1016/j.quascirev.2013.05.009.