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]