James I. Kirkland

James Ian Kirkland (born August 24, 1954) is an American paleontologist and geologist. He has worked with dinosaur remains from the southwest United States of America and Mexico [1][2][3] and has been responsible for discovering new and important genera. He named (or worked with others in naming) Animantarx,[4] Cedarpelta,[5] Eohadrosaurus[6] (nomen nudum, now named Eolambia),[7] Jeyawati,[8] Gastonia,[9] Mymoorapelta,[10] Nedcolbertia,[11] Utahraptor,[12] Zuniceratops,[13] Europelta[14] and Diabloceratops.[15] At the same site where he found Gastonia and Utahraptor, Kirkland has also excavated fossils of the therizinosaur Falcarius.[16]

  1. ^ Kirkland at al. 2001, p. ?
  2. ^ Kirkland et al. 2006, p. ?
  3. ^ Gates et al. 2007, p. ?
  4. ^ Carpenter, Kirkland, Burge & Bird 1999, pp. 243-251.
  5. ^ Carpenter, Kirkland, Burge & Bird 2001, pp. ?
  6. ^ Kirkland 1997, p. ?
  7. ^ Kirkland 1998, 283-295.
  8. ^ Wolfe and Kirkland 2010, pp. 799-812.
  9. ^ Kirkland 1998, p. ?
  10. ^ Kirkland and Carpenter 1994, pp. 25-42.
  11. ^ Kirkland, Britt, Whittle, Madsen and Burge 1998, 239-248.
  12. ^ Kirkland, Burge & Gaston 1993, pp. 1-16.
  13. ^ Wolfe and Kirkland 1998, pp. 307-317.
  14. ^ Kirkland et al. 2013
  15. ^ Kirkland and DeBlieux 2010, pp. 117–140.
  16. ^ Kirkland, Zanno, Sampson, Clark & DeBlieux 2005, pp. 84-87.

© MMXXIII Rich X Search. We shall prevail. All rights reserved. Rich X Search