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Acinonyx pardinensis
| Acinonyx pardinensis Temporal range:
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| Skull, Museum of Paleontology in Florence, Italy | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Carnivora |
| Suborder: | Feliformia |
| Family: | Felidae |
| Subfamily: | Felinae |
| Genus: | Acinonyx |
| Species: | †A. pardinensis
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| †Acinonyx pardinensis | |
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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 during the Pliocene and Pleistocene epochs. It was substantially larger than the living cheetah.
- ^ 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.
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