The bones entrapped in the homogeneous clay are relatively few, black, usually disarticulated, little worn and not unduly fragmented; consequently the discovery of undamaged limb bones, for example, from this kind of matrix is not unusual.
"Two New Pelycosaurs from the Lower Permian of Oklahoma"
Richard C. Fox
The doctor's eye fell upon the medical works and the disarticulated skull, and his ill-humour departed.
"The Firm of Girdlestone"
Arthur Conan Doyle
"These things are so infernally interesting," said Trafford, surveying the row of miscellaneous cans upon the stove he had packed with disarticulated goose.
"Marriage"
H. G. Wells