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th of Cape Hatteras 
species which are no longer generally can ERE: This Baa indi-’ 
onderosa and Littorina pik aps 
eute oot the abstont bay fauna was Taid down when Be ce ae 
mate, or at least the water, was somewhat warmer than ae oday. 
The present day much commoner, more northern pittorsne | orea, 
which is found in large numbers alive in Jamaica Bay, : a corn 
among the fossils on the beach (see American Museum of Natural His- 
tory GUIDE TO SHELLS, Emerson and Jacobson 1976, p. 57. -Hd.). 
ified by Dr. 
Dr. Franz informed me that these suppositions were verit 
Arthur Merrill of the Federal Fisheries Bureau, who subjected the 
fossil oyster shells to carbon-14 dating tests. He confirmed the 
age of the deposits as more or less 10,000 years. 

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