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]

Tecopa Lake Beds
Stratigraphic range: Pleistocene
TypeGeologic formation
Lithology
PrimaryMudstone
Location
RegionMojave Desert,
California
CountryUnited States
Type section
Named forLake Tecopa (prehistoric)

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]

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References

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  1. ^ Geological Society of America.org: Lake Tecopa−related articles
  2. ^ Various Contributors to the Paleobiology Database. "Fossilworks: Gateway to the Paleobiology Database". Retrieved 17 December 2021.
  3. ^ Whistler, David P.; Webb, David S. (2005). "New goatlike camelid from the Late Pliocene of Tecopa Lake Basin, California". Contributions in Science. 503. ISSN 0459-8113.