Range and diet diversity in the Pleistocene American "cheetah," Miracinonyx trumani.
The extinct "American cheetah" (Miracinonyx trumani) has long been considered a North American ecological analog of the African cheetah1,2 (Acinonyx jubatus) based on convergent cursorial morphology, yet this paradigm rests on limited data3 and untested assumptions about its evolutionary relationships and ecology.2,4 H...