The seven monkey teeth set up in Panama suggest the ancient species,

dubbed Panamacebus transitus, was related to present- day wrap and

squirrel monkeys. It’s not known how large the population of monkeys
was in Panama, and digs each around Central America have noway
produced any substantiation that the ancient monkeys made it further
north. Jonathan Bloch, the watchman of invertebrate paleontology at
the Florida Museum of Natural History and lead author of the study
says that’s one of the biggest questions the exploration raises.

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In Panama, he suggests, the monkeys set up foliage and fruits

analogous to what they ate in South America. Once they headed north
to Costa Rica and Nicaragua, still, they presumably did n’t know how to
handle the changing ecosystem.