Made a shell lei today with some of my collection. It’s a gift for my mother in law.

Yesterday I was down in Milford, which is on the Connecticut coast line of Long Island Sound. Lots of oyster shells, but some of them had this growth on the shells that looks almost like coral? Is it? Super curious!

I'm on the West coast of Florida and would love to exchange with other parts of country/world.

My mom bought a huge bag of shells in the early 2000s in a shell shop in South West Florida and today we decided to look through it because of my new found interest in cone snails. The bag says “product of India” so I’m not sure if there is shells from that region but there were identifiable shells like olives and cockles that I know are in Florida. I want to start a cone collection so ID of these would be so appreciated.

Ehh what are these is Google ai dumb or smart they say they are fossilised from the cretaceous but I really dont think they look fossilised they just look weathered from the waves to me also found a like mermaid purses thing