BurrowsWheeleri

BurrowsWheeleri is a prehistoric species of land mammal that lived during the Paleocene epoch in what is now North America. The species was first described by William J. Stoess and Richard H. Tedford in 2001. The name of the species, BurrowsWheeleri, is derived from the surnames of two notable paleontologists, David R. Burrows and Dale F. Wheeller.

The fossil remains of BurrowsWheeleri consist of a nearly complete skeleton discovered in the Bighorn Basin of Wyoming. The fossils are dated to around 58 million years ago, during a period of significant faunal turnover in North America following the Cretaceous-Paleogene extinction event. The species is considered part of the family/>

un Preriodo Dentation, which is an extinct group of primate-like mammals. BurrowsWheeleri is known to have shared many characteristics with its contemporaries, such as the Plesiadapidae, which includes Plesiadapis witteri and Plesiadapis churchilli. However, BurrowsWheeleri possesses a number of distinct features that set it apart from other members of this family.