It was so unusual, in fact, that when palaeontologist Harry Whittington, an expert on the Burgess Shale, showed an early version of his reconstruction in a meeting of palaeontologists in 1972, the whole room burst out laughing! ###>En fait, il est si original que la première version de sa reconstitution par Whittington dans une réunion de paléontologues en 1972 a provoqué l’hilarité générale.