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 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 therizinosaur ''Falcarius''. Provided by Wikipedia