What Happened To Primates In North America?

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Early primates not only lived in North America -- our primate family tree actually originated here! So what happened to those early relatives of ours?

Thank you to these paleoartists for allowing us to use their wonderful illustrations:
Nobu Tamura: https://spinops.blogspot.com/
Julio Lacerda:   / juliotheartist  
Fabrizio de Rossi:   / artoffabricious  
Patrick Lynch: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...

Thanks to Amy Atwater for the Omomyiform fossil photo.   / mary_annings_revenge  

The paper discussing Panamacebus:
Bloch, J., Woodruff, E., Wood, A. et al. First North American fossil monkey and early Miocene tropical biotic interchange. Nature 533, 243–246 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1038/nature17415

This video features this Paleogeographic Map: Scotese, C.R., 2019. Plate Tectonics, Paleogeography, and Ice Ages, YouTube video:    • Scotese Plate Tectonics Paleogeography & I...  .

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