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Feature ID	Feature Name	Clean Feature Name	Target	Diameter	Center Latitude	Center Longitude	Northernmost Latitude	Southernmost Latitude	Easternmost Longitude	Westernmost Longitude	Coordinate System	Continent	Ethnicity	Feature Type	Feature Type Code	Quad	Approval Status	Approval Date	Reference	Origin	Additional Info	Last Updated
16424	Boxgrove Saxum	Boxgrove Saxum	Donaldjohanson	0.01	11.22	22.03	-	-	-	-	Planetocentric, +West, 0 - 360	Europe	England	Saxum, saxa	SA	-	Approved	Aug 27, 2025	[901]	Boxgrove, village in England and site of discovery of Homo heidelbergensis fossils and direct evidence of hunting and butchering by early humans.	Coordinate system marker. Planetocentric R value 3.538 km is the radial distance from the coordinate system origin.	Sep 04, 2025
16428	Cashel Saxum	Cashel Saxum	Donaldjohanson	0.08	28.40	51.80	-	-	-	-	Planetocentric, +West, 0 - 360	Europe	Ireland	Saxum, saxa	SA	-	Approved	Aug 27, 2025	[903]	Cashel, town in County Laois, Ireland, near which the preserved body of a young adult male, Cashel Man, was found in a bog; one of the oldest known “bog bodies” in Europe and dates to ~2000 BCE.	Planetocentric R value 2.224 km is the radial distance from the coordinate system origin.	Nov 18, 2025
16427	Kennewick Saxum	Kennewick Saxum	Donaldjohanson	0.10	14.20	39.40	-	-	-	-	Planetocentric, +West, 0 - 360	North America	United States	Saxum, saxa	SA	-	Approved	Aug 27, 2025	[900]	Kennewick, city in Washington state, USA, near which Kennewick Man, a 9,300 BP human male skeleton discovered in 1996.	Planetocentric R value 2.914 km is the radial distance from the coordinate system origin.	Nov 18, 2025

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