my  induction into Marien's elite club  involved collecting in a
protected bay area on eastern long island New York  with another local
collector/COA member. We were, in fact, having a discussion of
extralimital shells and shell finds  at that very moment when, we
rounded a bulkhead and there at my feet at the water's edge was a
worn and algae covered specimen of the Florida/Caribbean Strombus
raninus.

that same collector had his own story-  of finding a slipper shell,
Crepidula fornicata in some woods nowhere near any seacoast while
exploring terrestrial natural history. I think he also said the shell
was actually up in the  tree and/or on a tree limb.

On 2/6/14, Marien Faber <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> finding at least one extralimital shell actually defines the serious
> shell-collector.
> Marien
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> Date: Thu, 6 Feb 2014 18:24:21 +0000
> From: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: [CONCH-L] Amazing Extralimital Shell Find
> To: [log in to unmask]
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> I've seen Conus betulinus taken in a trawl in the North Sea. "Thrown
> overboard from a homeward-bound Russian trawler" was the best guess.
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> PC.
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> From: Conchologists List [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> On Behalf Of David Campbell
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> Sent: Thursday, February 06, 2014 12:05 PM
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> To: [log in to unmask]
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> Subject: Re: [CONCH-L] Amazing Extralimital Shell Find
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> Shortly after a hurricane demolished a beach cottage with a shell collection
> in it, quite a number of remarkable additions to the North Carolina
> molluscan fauna were reported.  Hugh Porter received the reports politely,
> but did not include
>  them in his publications.
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> Based on shell material, Crassostrea is one of the most widespread and
> common freshwater mollusks in North America.  The lack of live material and
> abundance of cooked material makes the records suspect, however.
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> Colonial Williamsburg uses authentic fragments shell to line some walkways,
> but the latest batch came from rather more offshore than the colonial
> oystershells - it has a lot of Arctica.
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> On Thu, Feb 6, 2014 at 10:34 AM, Steve Rosenthal <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Here is an email i received yesterday from friend and super-naturalist
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> Brian Cassie (Foxboro Massachusetts),  many shellers  have similar but
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> perhaps not as dramatic stories of shells found in unexpected places:
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>    I saw a shell outside of a house in Mattapoisett (SOUTHERN MA)  so I
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> stopped and asked the occupants about it and the husband said that 25 years
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> ago, he saw it protruding from the side of a creek in a saltwater marsh in
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> Sandwich....and he pulled it out and brought it home. What is it? One very
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> large valve of a Giant Clam! And now it is up to all of us to try to figure
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> out how that shell got there in the first place. My neighbor, Mary Malloy,
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> is an expert on worldwide maritime things and she said, unhesitatingly,
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> that it was probably brought over by a whaling ship and then thrown or fell
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> overboard near shore and washed up to where it was eventually discovered.
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> There should be several more plausible explanations. In any case, it was
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> discovered just as I described. I wish I had been fishing that creek and
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> found it.
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>     Brian
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