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 Pleis tocene marine deposits from the region. Rare specimens of sea urchin, crab and brittlestar may be the oldest recorded occurrence of these animals in the late-glacial Bay of Fundy. The assemblage fits into a previously defined Zone 3, late-glacial marine invertebrate assemblage in the Bay of Fundy-Gulf of Maine region, character ized as a Diverse Arctic assemblage.La datation par le radiocarbone a situd a 13 500 ans BP une faune invertebrde tardiglaciaire de la pointe Lepreau, ou Nouveau-Brunswick. L'assemblage renferme des mollusques et des bernacles subarctiques a boreaux bien conserves caracteristiques des depots marins du Pleistocene tardif de la region. Les specimens rares d'oursins, de crabes et d'ophiures pourraient constituer les manifestations les plus anciennes de la presence de ces animaux relevees dans la region tardiglaciaire de la baie de Fundy. L'assemblage se situe a l'interieur de l'assemblage d'invertebres marins tardiglaciaires de la zone 3 anterieurement defini dans la region de la baie de Fundy et du golfe du Maine, caracterise en tant qu'assemblage arctique heterogene.[
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