James Ian Kirkland (born 1954) is an American paleontologist and geologist. He has worked with dinosaur remains from the south west United States of America and has been responsible for discovering new and important genera. He named (or worked with others in naming) "Animantarx" (Carpenter, Kirkland, Burge, and Bird, 1999), "Eohadrosaurus" (Kirkland, 1997 "[nomen nudum]"), now named "Eolambia" (Kirkland, 1998), "Gastonia" (Kirkland, 1998), … Wikipedia
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