| Panthera youngi Temporal range: Middle Pleistocene |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Carnivora |
| Family: | Felidae |
| Genus: | Panthera |
| Species: | †P. youngi |
| Binomial name | |
| Panthera youngi |
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Panthera youngi is known from Choukoutien, northeastern China and lived about 350,000 years ago in the Pleistocene epoch. Data reviewed in 1969 suggested that the American lion, the Eurasian cave lion and the large Chinese Panthera youngi are conspecific. However, some scientists are not so sure about P. youngi being a lion, and identify it as a primitive tiger or even a leopard.