Path: ...!news.mixmin.net!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: JTEM Newsgroups: sci.anthropology.paleo,sci.bio.paleontology Subject: Re: The taxonomy of Sahelanthropus tchadensis from a craniometric perspective Date: Sun, 4 Aug 2024 15:19:58 -0400 Organization: Eek Lines: 32 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: jtem01@gmail.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Sun, 04 Aug 2024 21:20:01 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="46570db339433e475fdfc3b47b9ef620"; logging-data="230177"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18eczmmWTN+6bXHy6BHkLSC" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Cancel-Lock: sha1:9hjUtSuNNwqosLBndF98UikAvAI= In-Reply-To: Content-Language: en-US Bytes: 2160 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. -- https://jtem.tumblr.com/tagged/The%20Book%20of%20JTEM/page/5