| Named By: | Brookes in 1828 |
| Time Period: | Early to Middle Pleistocene |
| Location: | Across Europe, Asia and Africa with fossils located in Austria, China, France, Germany, India, Italy, Kenya, Morocco, Russia, South Africa, Spain, Tajikistan and Tanzania |
| Size: | Roughly about 90 centimetres high at the shoulder. Body length about 200 centimetres long, tail and additional 140 centimetres in length |
| Diet: | Carnivore |
| Fossil(s): | Remains of many individuals revealing most of the skull and skeleton |
| Classification: | | Chordata | Mammalia | Carnivora | Felidae | Acinonyx | |
The giant cheetah (Acinonyx pardinensis) is an extinct species of big cat closely related to the modern cheetah.