Acinonyx pardinensis
| Acinonyx pardinensis | |
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| Skull, Museum of Paleontology in Florence, Italy | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Carnivora |
| Family: | Felidae |
| Genus: | Acinonyx |
| Species: | †A. pardinensis
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| Binomial name | |
| †Acinonyx pardinensis (Croizet & Jobert, 1828)
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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 from Late Pliocene to the early Middle Pleistocene epoch from around 3 million to around 500,000 years ago. It was substantially larger than the living cheetah.