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The primate lineage is thought go back to at least 65 mya, even though the oldest known primate from the fossil record is Plesiadapis (55-58 mya) from the Late Paleocene. Other studies, including molecular clock studies, have estimated the origin of the primate branch to have been in the mid-Cretaceous period, around 85 mya.

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Primates were at the earliest was anybody's guess. Every specimen found was at first the "Missing Link," then the meal of the Missing Link, then really only the lacquered hog's tooth of the 19th century "discovered" by a professor in need of more funding....

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Dryomomys szalayi and Ignacius clarkforkensis.

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