Why did I see two Root Fossils on the ground in Alpha Sapphire?

In my first playthrough of ORAS (een da bloo wun) I went into the desert and found my fossils, like normal. I assumed I would get to choose out of hoen’s two fossil Pokemon, lileep and anorith, like in most other games. however, I got two root fossils to choose from, for some reason. while this did put less pressure on me to choose, I don’t know why it happened. even before playing OR (where the fossils were perfectly normal, BTW) I was sure it was some sort of error or mistake, because if they were only giving you one Pokemon, why two fossils? I really wanna know if anyone else saw this glitch or knows what caused it.

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I searchedBulbapedia,Glitch City,Project Pokemon, andSmogonbut was unable to find any documentation about a glitch causing Root Fossil to appear twice on Route 111 in OR/AS.

It is extremely unlikely that you discovered a glitch/error which was until now undocumented, let alone through a recollection of events that happened “years ago”. Based upon this, the likely answer to this question is thatyou are mistaken and one of the fossils was, in fact, a Claw Fossil.

Inthis video, you can see that the two fossils on Route 111 have the same model and texture, which may be the source of your confusion. This is the same in the original R/S games.