I am pleased to see that the authors were able to respond constructively to all the points raised. These concerned chiefly the availability of information on age models and the assignment of pollen to PFT. Both of these are now implemented, as well as other comments and I believe the manuscript si ths now ready to be published.

There is one technical issue that I would like the authors to tackle: In the current manuscript section 5, the authors state that only two datasets are available on Pangaea associated with this note. However, the doi on pangaea is asssociated with 5 tables, including two new ones resulting from the review. I would like the authors to use the section 5 of their manuscript to describe the content and structure of all 5 datasets explicitly, so a correct record of the content of the data associated with the paper is preserved.