It could very well be you collected a few "wedding shells" or shells 
that someone returned to the ocean after a relative died?
Karlynn
NC - USA

On 2/26/2024 12:34 PM, JOHN A CRAMER wrote:
> We went to the 2023 COA in Wilmington (great job, NC club!) and of 
> course we wandered around looking for shells. The collection of stuff 
> from Kure Beach has been sitting on my desk since then and I finally 
> got to it yesterday. I have a true limpet that really seemed out of 
> place.  Then I looked at the drupe and saw the little thorn on the 
> bottom of the lip! What have is definitely /Lottia pelta/ and 
> /Acanthina paucilirata. /The limpet I have indeed collected in 
> California (long ago) but the drupe, another Californian, is new to 
> me. There is not the slightest chance the shells got mixed into the 
> Kure Beach stuff from other stuff here. They were there in the sand at 
> Kure Beach just waiting for me to sift them out.
> OK, time for whoever has been salting the beach to 'fess up.
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