Panthera gombaszoegensis

Panthera gombaszoegensis; Temporal range: Early Pleistocene (Gelasian) to Middle Pleistocene,
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Carnivora
Suborder:	Feliformia
Family:	Felidae
Subfamily:	Pantherinae
Genus:	Panthera
Species:	†P. gombaszoegensis
Binomial name
	†Panthera gombaszoegensis; (Kretzoi, 1938)
Subspecies
	P. g. georgica (Hemmer, 2010); P. g. gombaszoegensis; P. g. jinpuensis (Jiangzuo et al., 2022); P. g. toscana?;
Synonyms
	Leo gombaszoegensis Kretzoi, 1938; Panthera toscana Schaub, 1949; Panthera schreuderi Koenigswald, 1960; Jansofelis vaufreyi Bonifay, 1971;

Panthera gombaszoegensis, also known as the European jaguar, is a Panthera species that lived from about 2.0 to 0.3 million years ago in Europe, as well as likely elsewhere in Eurasia. The first fossils were excavated in 1938 in Gombasek Cave, Slovakia. P. gombaszoegensis was a medium-large sized species that formed an important part of the European carnivore guild for a period of over a million years. Many authors have posited that it is the ancestor of the American jaguar (Panthera onca), with some authors considering it the subspecies Panthera onca gombaszoegensis, though the close relationship between the two species has been questioned by some authors.