Giant cheetah-Acinonyx Pardinensis

[Acinonyx sp.]

Body mass data on the giant cheetah:

Body mass 
 
Georgia 
A male giant cheetah in Dmanisi was estimated to weigh around 100 kg. (3) 
 
France 
A Female giant cheetah from Étouaires had an estimated body mass of 70 kg, possibly a different female specimen from the same place had an estimated body mass of 80 kg.  A male cheetah from Étouaires had an estimated body mass of 120 kg. A female giant cheetah from Cote d’Arde had an estimated weight of 70 kg; a female from Saint Vallier was estimated to weigh 60 kg. (1,2) 
 
Germany 
Two male giant cheetahs from Untermassfeld had an estimated mean body mass of 125 kg (n=2), they were estimated to weigh 110 kg and 140 kg respectively; the latter is the largest giant cheetah specimen found as of yet. A female cheetah from Mosbach was estimated to weigh 60 kg. (1,2) 
 
Italy 
A male giant cheetah from Casa Frata had an estimated body mass of 110 kg. A female from Pantalla was estimated to weigh 80 kg; a female from Montopoli was estimated to weigh 60 kg; a female from Villafrana d’Asti was estimated to weigh 70 kg. (1,2) 
 
India 
A male giant cheetah from the Siwalik Hills was estimated to weigh 110 kg. (2) 
 
China 
A male cheetah from Longdan was estimated to weigh 90 kg. (2) 
 
Morocco 
A male giant cheetah from Ahl Al Oughlam was estimated to weigh 100 kg. (2) 
 
Spain 
A female in Fonelas had an estimated body mass of 60 kg. A male from Villaroya had an estimated body mass of 90 kg. (2) 
 
Total average: 
Males: 110 kg (n=8) 
Females: 70 kg (n=8) 
 
 
References: 
1. Evolution of community composition in several carnivore palaeoguilds from the European Pleistocene: the role of interspecific competition.  
2. Acinonyx pardinensis (Carnivora, Felidae) from the Early Pleistocene of Pantalla (Italy): predatory behavior and ecological role of the giant PlioePleistocene cheetah 
3.The cheetah Acinonyx pardinensis (Croizet et Jobert, 1828) s.l. at the hominin site of Dmanisi (Georgia) - A potential prime meat supplier in Early Pleistocene ecosystems 
4.The Carnivores of the late Pliocene site of Saint-Vallier (Dr6me, France)  
5. Argant, A., 2004. Les Carnivores du gisement Pliocène final de Saint-Vallier  
6. Evolution of the extinct Sabretooths and the American cheetah-like cat 
7. A record of cheetah scavenging in the Serengeti 
8. Phylogeography, genetic structure and population divergence time of cheetahs in Africa and Asia: evidence for long-term geographic isolates.  
9. Recherches sur les ossemens fossiles du département du Puy-de-Dôme 
10. Les faunes de grands Mammifères de la Grotte du Vallonnet Roquebune-Cap-Martin, Alpes-Maritimes 
11. Nuove ricerche sui Felini del Pliocene italiano 
12. The Villafranchian cheetahs from Tuscany and remarks on the dispersal and evolution of the genus Acinonyx 
 13. The paleobiology of the extinct venomous shrew Beremendia (Soricidae, Insectivora, Mammalia) in relation to the geology and paleoenvironment of Dmanisi (Early Pleistocene, Georgia). 
14. Archidiskodon gromovi Garutt et Alexeeva - der älteste Elefant der Mammutlinie in Eurasien 
15. Carnivores du Pliocène terminal de Ahl Al Oughlam (Casablanca, Maroc) 
16. Gallogoral (nov. gen.) meneghinii (Rütimeyer, 1878), un rupicapriné du Villafranchien d’Europe occidentale 
17. Le gisement pliocène supérieur de Saint-Vallier (Drôme, France): synthèse biostratigraphique et paléoécologique  Reply