Career
He is noted for identifying several new fossilized species, some of which bear his name, and for his connection to the Portuguese Kennedy Bone Cave, which contained one of the most important middle Pleistocene (Irvingtonian, approximately 750,000 years ago) fossil deposits in North America. He also managed successful mines in Connecticut and Pennsylvania, including a lead mine in Phoenixville, Pennsylvania. Cychrus Wheatleyi
Megalonyx wheatleyi.