Death Valley Deep Dive 2024

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The Arabian camel, brought to the area by the United States Camel Corps, readily ate creosote bush. It is thought that this meeting reestablished a biological relationship that was broken when the American camels became extinct in the Quaternary Extinction Event.

I don't know the various eras of prehistoric time. But does the period that American camel roamed correspond to the time that the creosote came to North America? I found this on a Bing search:

• The creosote bush is native to South America, specifically regions in Southern Peru, Bolivia, and Argentina1.
  
• It spread to North America during the Pleistocene period, which occurred from approximately 1 million to 10,000 years ago1.
  
• The first North American creosote appeared in the southern Chihuahua Desert about 109,000 years ago
  

It sounds to me as if the camel came before the creosote.