James I. Kirkland
James Ian Kirkland , called Jim, (born August 24, 1954 ) is an American vertebrate paleontologist and geologist who studies dinosaurs .
Kirkland is a state paleontologist with the Utah State Geological Survey and, as such, is responsible for granting excavation licenses. He is Research Associate at the Denver Museum of Natural History and Adjunct Professor of Geology at Mesa State College in Grand Junction, Colorado and at the University of Utah at Salt Lake City .
He looked for dinosaurs primarily in the southwestern United States and Mexico . He is one of the first to describe Animantarx , Eohadrosaurus (now called Eolambia ), Cedarpelta , Mymoorapelta , Gastonia , Nedcolbertia , Utahraptor (with Burge and Gaston 1993), Jeyawati , Zuniceratops and Diabloceratops . Besides dinosaurs, he also deals with fossil mollusks and fish.
Kirkland found evidence of a land bridge between Asia and North America in the Mesozoic Era 100 million years ago, which allowed fauna to be exchanged.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ JI Kirkland, D. Burge, R. Gaston: A large dromaeosaur (Theropoda) from the Lower Cretaceous of Eastern Utah , Hunteria 2, 2003, 1-16
- ↑ JI Kirkland: Biogeography of western North America's mid-Cretaceous faunas - losing European ties and the first great Asian-North American interchange , J. Vert. Paleontol. 16 (Suppl. To 3), 1996, 45A
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| SURNAME | Kirkland, James I. |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Kirkland, James Ian |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American paleontologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 24, 1954 |