SFR-mass plane, color-coded by the average mass-weighted stellar ages measured by PPXF in three different redshift bins. Each data point represents a single galaxy. The blue lines represent a simple linear fit to the SFR–M_⋆ relation of this sample in that redshift bin. For reference, various observational MS estimates (Santini et al. 2017; Popesso et al. 2023; Rinaldi et al. 2022) and predictions from simulations (Ma et al. 2018; Yung et al. 2019) are presented, as indicated by the labels. We extrapolated these MS by ca. 0.5 dex in stellar mass where necessary to compare them to our lower-mass sample. The three dotted lines indicate the quenched threshold for the same redshifts (see main text). The error bar in the upper left corner represents the RMS errors for M_⋆ and SFR for the entire sample. Quiescent and (mini-)quenched galaxies and other galaxies for which no SFR could be estimated because the relevant nebular emission lines were not detected are plotted with upper limits.