LATE-GLACIAL MARINE INVERTEBRATE MACROFOSSILS FROM POINT LEPREAU, NEW-BRUNSWICK

A late-glacial shell fauna from Point Lepreau, New Brunswick produced a radiocarbon date of 13,500 years B.P. The assemblage contained well- preserved subarctic to boreal molluscs and barnacles typical of late P leistocene marine deposits from the region. Rare specimens of sea urch in, crab and brittlestar may be the oldest recorded occurrence of thes e animals in the late-glacial Bay of Fundy. The assemblage fits into a previously defined Zone 3, late-glacial marine invertebrate assemblag e in the Bay of Fundy-Gulf of Maine region, characterized as a Diverse Arctic assemblage.