# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/james-i-kirkland
# Generated: 2026-08-14T20:23:28.541Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/james-i-kirkland"
name: "James I. Kirkland"
slug: "james-i-kirkland"
description: "James Ian Kirkland 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 Animantarx, Cedarpelta, Eohadrosaurus, 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."
tagline: "American paleontologist"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
birthDate: "1954-08-24"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           42.04
  momentum:             0
  historical:           8.945681333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     54.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  35
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%94%D0%B6%D0%B5%D0%B9%D0%BC%D1%81_%D0%86%D1%94%D0%BD_%D0%9A%D1%96%D1%80%D0%BA%D0%BB%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B4"
    title: "Джеймс Ієн Кіркланд"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Kirkland"
    title: "James Kirkland"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_I._Kirkland"
    title: "James I. Kirkland"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_I._Kirkland"
    title: "James I. Kirkland"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_I._Kirkland"
    title: "James I. Kirkland"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Kirkland_(pal%C3%A9ontologue)"
    title: "James Kirkland (paléontologue)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Kirkland"
    title: "James Kirkland"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Kirkland"
    title: "James Kirkland"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D0%B8%D1%80%D0%BA%D0%BB%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B4%2C_%D0%94%D0%B6%D0%B5%D0%B9%D0%BC%D1%81"
    title: "Киркланд, Джеймс"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://species.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Ian_Kirkland"
    title: "James Ian Kirkland"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3821154"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump