What happened to the high-latitude palaeomagnetic poles?

MANY apparent polar paths for the Precambrian have been published recently. A striking feature of these paths, besides their spaghetti-like appearance, is their bias for the equatorial zone, or their apparent aversion to high latitudes1–3. Does this mean that contrary to the present pole, the ancient pole had a much greater affinity for the equatorial region? Perhaps high latitude poles do not exist, or they are not reported, or they are …