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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
16419	Afar Lobus	Afar Lobus	Donaldjohanson	3.40	0.00	0.00	-	-	-	-	Planetocentric, +West, 0 - 360	Africa	Ethiopia	Lobus, lobi	LO	-	Approved	Aug 27, 2025	[898]	Afar Triangle (Ethiopia), site of many important fossil finds.	Afar Lobus is the smaller of the two lobi.	Sep 04, 2025
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
16421	Hadar Regio	Hadar Regio	Donaldjohanson	2.30	18.00	142.00	-	-	-	-	Planetocentric, +West, 0 - 360	Africa	Ethiopia	Regio, regiones	RE	-	Approved	Aug 27, 2025	[898]	Hadar (Ethiopia), the paleontological fossil site within the Afar Triangle where the Lucy fossil was discovered in 1974.		Sep 04, 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
16423	Luzia Dorsum	Luzia Dorsum	Donaldjohanson	2.00	15.00	135.00	-	-	-	-	Planetocentric, +West, 0 - 360	South and Central America	Brazil	Dorsum, dorsa	DO	-	Approved	Aug 27, 2025	[900]	Luzia Woman, a 11,500 year-old female skeleton found at Lapa Vermelha in Brazil; named as an homage to the Lucy fossil.		Sep 04, 2025
16422	Minatogawa Regio	Minatogawa Regio	Donaldjohanson	1.50	15.00	125.00	-	-	-	-	Planetocentric, +West, 0 - 360	Asia	Japan	Regio, regiones	RE	-	Approved	Aug 27, 2025	[899]	Minatogawa limestone quarry (Okinawa, Japan) where four skeletons of early Homo sapiens (20,000-22,000 BCE) were excavated in 1968, 1970, and 1974.		Sep 04, 2025
16425	Mungo	Mungo	Donaldjohanson	0.01	10.78	17.55	-	-	-	-	Planetocentric, +West, 0 - 360	Oceania	Australia	Crater, craters	AA	-	Approved	Aug 27, 2025	[898]	Lake Mungo (New South Wales, Australia) is the site of three significant finds of human including Mungo woman, one of the earliest known cremations.	Coordinate system marker. Planetocentric R value 3.636 km is the radial distance from the coordinate system origin.	Sep 04, 2025
16426	Narmada	Narmada	Donaldjohanson	0.01	22.52	39.35	-	-	-	-	Planetocentric, +West, 0 - 360	Asia	India	Crater, craters	AA	-	Approved	Aug 27, 2025	[902]	Narmada River Valley (India), site of Narmada Human, fossil remains of an indeterminate hominin species, the oldest found in India (50,000 – 150,000 BCE).	Coordinate system marker. Planetocentric R value 2.532 km is the radial distance from the coordinate system origin.	Sep 04, 2025
16420	Olduvai Lobus	Olduvai Lobus	Donaldjohanson	5.40	0.00	0.00	-	-	-	-	Planetocentric, +West, 0 - 360	Africa	Tanzania	Lobus, lobi	LO	-	Approved	Aug 27, 2025	[898]	Olduvai Gorge (Tanzania), a major paleoanthropological site.	Olduvai Lobus is the larger of the two lobi.	Sep 04, 2025
16429	Windover Collum	Windover Collum	Donaldjohanson	0.00	20.00	140.00	-	-	-	-	Planetocentric, +West, 0 - 360	North America	United States	Collum, colli	CL	-	Approved	Aug 27, 2025	[904]	Windover Pond, a site in Florida, USA, yielding remains of 168 individuals (including soft tissue) dating from ~7300 years BP.		Sep 04, 2025

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