Where primates ever prevalent in North America?

Question

I assume they existed in South America, and when that continent met North America, some primates migrated up to Southern Mexico. Was it the arid area in Northern Mexico which prevented further migration North?

Answer 1

Well for one thing, other than us, though they may have more hair than we do, primates don't wear clothes, so until until we arrived and opened zoos, there's no early evidence of primates in North America...

Answer 2

No, I've never read of fossil monkey's, etc in North America.  Did they get up past the Isthmus of Panama?  There had to be limited ecosystems in that area.  Just speculating.  Arid Mexico at least as plausible.

Maybe in another 50,000 years there would have been a climate corridor that occurred, or a primate would have adapted.  Some Old World primates have adapted to near deserts, I think.  And to some pretty cold winters.

Answer 3

What do you mean by prevalent?

There have been documents reporting fossil primate evidence in North America over a very wide time period.  The ecology of millions of years ago has nothing to connect with the current climate of the New World.

There is a very long list of prehistoric mammals in North America which no longer are found in the wild.  These include camels, lions, tigers, horses, woolly mammoths, rhinos, mastodons and primates.