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Help with Rhode Island Shale Beach Find - Grass? Nothing?

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Hi! My 6 year old is very interested in fossils so we took a trip to Rhode Island today to see if we could find anything at a shale beach. Might anyone be able to help ID the following? We aren’t sure and would love to be able to help him determine if he found something, and if so what it might be. My googling is coming up empty handed, and we just started our learning journey. Thanks so much!

 

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Tidgy's Dad Regular Member

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Yes, fossil plant remains from the Pennsylvanian. 

Not grass though, grass hadn't evolved by that time. 

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Fossildude19 Regular Member

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More likely to be root structures, in this instance, I believe. 

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