Tecopa Lake Beds

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
Type	Geologic formation
Lithology
Primary	Mudstone
Location
Region	Mojave Desert, California
Country	United States
Type section
Named for	Lake 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]

See also

• Paleontology portal
• California portal

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