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Subject: Re: The taxonomy of Sahelanthropus tchadensis from a craniometric
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  Pandora wrote:

> Actually, there's more than one individual of this taxon, from three 
> different localities (TM 247, TM 266 and TM 292). This additional 
> material was announced in Nature in 2005:

Where are those localities?  I just did an exhaustive 30 second search
and could only find an actual location associated with 266.

And, yes, I did search longer than 30 seconds but it wouldn't have been
nearly as funny if I offered a better time estimate...

> Not too far from where another hominin taxon, Australopithecus 
> bahrelghazali, was discovered in 1995.

That appears to be where the 266 was found.

> If you think that's the wrong place you must have some concept of what 
> is the right place. Where would that be?

Well any other day of the week the clown act insists it's South Africa:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cradle_of_Humankind

I would have guessed that you knew.




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