1. Many species, especially the largest, are known only from isolated and disarticulated bones.

2. Silurian Cartilaginous fish are known only from scales, a few teeth, and small disarticulated fossils (Qu, 2010)

3. These fossil elements, none of which are complete, were found disarticulated in an area of fifty centimeters square.

4. ‘A diverse Assemblage of winged insects appears suddenly in the fossil record about 330 million years ago, and there are few clues about their evolutionary lineage.’ ‘The presence of a diverse Assemblage has been suspected on the basis of disarticulated remains preserved in such localities.’