American officials said that the warning had been based on fragmentary information and that they had no "actionable" or specific intelligence about the attack.
Read the entire account on ADST.org OAKLEY: We could not deal with generalities; speculation would not do, even if based on fragmentary information.
The earliest stages of development are still a matter of much speculation based on fragmentary evidence.
There are a lot of impressions circulating about these matters, based on fragmentary evidence.
A great many of them have been based on fragmentary or incomplete material that may actually have come from two or more different dinosaurs.
Gongbusaurus wucaiwanensis was described in 1989 based on fragmentary fossils, but these can no longer be found in the collections to which they belong.
The unusual animal, dubbed Atopodentatus unicus (a blend of Greek and Latin for "unique and strange-toothed"), was first described 2 years ago based on fragmentary fossils.
But not everyone is convinced that either Morotopithecus or Kenyapithecus is such close kin to living apes and humans, noting that the recent conclusions are based on fragmentary fossils.
All three are based on fragmentary material, and were regarded as indeterminate in the most recent review.
But in outlining the evidence that prompted those conclusions, they also repeatedly acknowledged that they had been based on circumstantial, fragmentary data.
