Tecopa Lake Beds
Stratigraphic range: Pleistocene

Type| Geologic formation
Lithology
Primary| Mudstone
Location
Region| Mojave Desert,
California
Country| United States
Type section
Named for| Lake Tecopa (prehistoric)

The Tecopa Lake Beds is a Blancan Pleistocene geologic formation in the Mojave Desert in eastern California. It is in the Tecopa area, east of Death Valley, in southeastern Inyo and northeastern San Bernardino County.[1]

The Lake Tecopa lake beds are the dry lake remnant of the formerly huge Pleistocene age Lake Tecopa, in the present day Amargosa River basin. It preserves fossils of the Quaternary period in the Cenozoic Era.[2]

Among the fossils found in the Tecopa Lake Beds is Capricamelus gettyi, a camelid.[3]

## See also

* Lake Manly
* List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in California
* Natural history of the Mojave Desert
* Paleontology in California

## References

1. ↑ Geological Society of America.org: Lake Tecopa−related articles
2. ↑ ((Various Contributors to the Paleobiology Database)). "Fossilworks: Gateway to the Paleobiology Database". https://www.fossilworks.org/.
3. ↑ Whistler, David P.; Webb, David S. (2005). "New goatlike camelid from the Late Pliocene of Tecopa Lake Basin, California" (in English). Contributions in Science 503. ISSN 0459-8113. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/part/210563#/summary.

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* Meghalayan
* Northgrippian
* Greenlandian
* Preboreal
* Boreal
* Atlantic
* Subboreal
* Subatlantic

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