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Looks like the tan floor was there with a big old toilet on it. Then
they wanted a new toilet but when they removed the one with the larger
footprint there was a gap in the tan flooring material that was not
covered by the newer toilet. So they improvised and put down a piece
of material to cover the gap.

The toilet itself is relatively new, there is a date stamped inside the
tank in the 1970's, so it was replaced at some point. There are stains
around the edges that show the outline of a previous toilet.

I'm pretty sure that the marble baseplate was there when the bathroom
was originally installed since if you look at the underside of it from
the basement, someone went to a lot of trouble to frame around the
edges of the baseplate with no other subfloor under the baseplate.
They even cut a joist out and attached the cut ends of the joist to the
adjacent joists with headers. There doesn't appear to be any need to
do that (no plumbing was in the way) other than someone wanted the
edges of that baseplate to be supported by framing members.

Ken