Table 1 Records for the five regions where Beauprea-like fossils have been identified at 15-My intervals through the geological record.

Mean age was used to assign each species observed in a given study, although multiple entries are given if species occurred in successive 15-My intervals.

		Antarctica	SE Australia	Rest of Australia	Zealandia	South America
Oldest pollen recorded (Ma)		81.4	83.8	74.5	*	68.0
Period (Ma)	Approximate epoch
84–70	Upper Cretaceous	6	8	3	1*	0
69–55	Paleocene	9	3	9	4	5
54–35	Eocene	12	11	13	4	3
34–20	Oligocene	2	8	4	6	1
19–5	Miocene	0	2	3	3	0
<5	Pliocene/Quaternary	0	3	0	6	0
Total records		29	34	32	24	9
P (Fisher’s exact probability test, two-tailed) for the last three periods combined		—	0.0099	0.3327	0.0001	0.3739
P (Fisher’s exact probability test, two-tailed) for the last three periods omitted		—	0.2651	0.7046	0.8839	0.2778

*“Upper Cretaceous” Couper (67).