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Clarified answer, made reference to a connectivity of support
Martin M. W.
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Let $\mu$ be Lebesgue measure on $S^1$, and $\delta_P$ be a point-mass at a point $P \in S^1$.

Then there is no flow on $S^1$ whose time averages lead to $\frac{1}{2}(\mu + \delta_P)$. (Consider the orbit of $P$.)

This distribution seems like it should count as "well-behaved." Its support is connected, and both $\mu$ and $\delta_P$ themselves arise as time-averages (by a rotational flow, and a flow to an attracting fixed point, respectively).

You can generalize to $\mathbb{R}^n$ by looking at an embedded $S^1$, and generalize to continuous maps by replacing the rotational flow with an irrational rotation.

Martin M. W.
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