Dear All Thank you to all who looked at my unknown shells and took a crack at identification. one furthur question, What the heck is a brachiopod? Is it any relation to mollusks or is it something else entirely?? Sorry for having to ask so much, but good reference books are in short supply in Newfoundland. I have in the past even tried our provincial university, even my poor mollusk book collection is better! Many thanks once again Thomas Clenche Petley, Random Island, Newfoundland http://community.webshots.com/user/tclenche _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp