Description
English: Acinonyx kurteni, a cheetah from the Pliocene of China. Digital.
Date 1 January 2009
Author Nobu Tamura (http://spinops.blogspot.com)
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Acinonyx_kurteni_BW.jpg

"Acinonyx kurteni", commonly known as the Linxia cheetah, is a discredited fossil specimen of an extinct cheetah discovered in China. The scientific name was assigned for the skull that was originally described to be that of an extinct species of cheetah, endemic to Asia during the Late Pliocene sub-epoch. It was estimated to have lived around 2.2 to 2.5 Ma BP, existing for approximately 0.3 million years. Order: Carnivora, Family: Felidae, Tribe: Acinonychini.