James I. Kirkland, Date of Birth

James I. Kirkland

American paleontologist

Date of Birth: 24-Aug-1954

Profession: paleontologist, pathologist

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Virgo

James Ian Kirkland (born August 24, 1954) is an American paleontologist and geologist.
He has worked with dinosaur remains from the south west United States of America and Mexico and has been responsible for discovering new and important genera.
He named (or worked with others in naming) Animantarx, Cedarpelta, Eohadrosaurus (nomen nudum, now named Eolambia), Jeyawati, Gastonia, Mymoorapelta, Nedcolbertia, Utahraptor, Zuniceratops, Europelta and Diabloceratops.
At the same site where he found Gastonia and Utahraptor, Kirkland has also excavated fossils of the therizinosaurs Nothronychus and Falcarius.