A fragment of your imagination
I do not apologize for the terrible pun.
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"most times they are just fragments"
So let's completely ignore all the other times?
Idiots, it's not like they've ever said this is definitively what things looked like. They aren't hiding the fact that this is their best interpretation.
And they can often intuit what the rest of a bone looks like based on similar bones in related species.