Primates are believed to only have been around for 50 to 55 million years

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Most animal species flourished and became extinct long before the first monkeys and their prosimian ancestors evolved. While the earth is about 4.54 billion years old and the first life dates to at least 3.5 billion years ago, the first primates did not appear until around 50-55 million years ago.

Early Primate Evolution: The First Primates

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Early Primate Evolution: The First Primates

https://www2.palomar.edu/anthro/earlyprimates/early_2.htm

Most animal species flourished and became extinct long before the first monkeys and their prosimian ancestors evolved. While the earth is about 4.54 billion years old and the first life dates to at least 3.5 billion years ago, the first primates did not appear until around 50-55 million years ago.

Evolution of primates - Wikipedia

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Genetic studies show that primates diverged from other mammals about 85 million years ago, in the Late Cretaceous period, and the earliest fossils appear in the Paleocene, around 55 million years ago.

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