Workshop "Palaeobiodiversity and evolution in the Mesozoic world" lecturers.
Dr.
Jim Kirkland (born, August 24, 1954) following receiving Ph.D. at University of
Colorado, spent two years teaching at
the University of Nebraska and nine years as paleontologist with the Dinamation
Int’l Soc. He has spent the last 17 years as the Utah State Paleontologist with
the Utah Geological Survey. He issues
permits for paleontological research on Utah state lands, keeps tabs on
paleontological research and issues across the state, and promotes Utah’s paleontological
resources for the public good.
An expert on the Mesozoic, he has spent forty years excavating fossils across the southwestern US and Mexico authoring and coauthoring more than 80 professional papers. The reconstruction of ancient marine and terrestrial environments, biostratigraphy, paleobiogeography, paleoecology, and mass extinctions are some of his interests. He has discovered and described numerous new dinosaurs including several new armored dinosaurs, bipedal plant-eaters, the oldest truly horned-dinosaur, North America’s first sickle-clawed therizinosaurid, and the giant dromaeosaur Utahraptor. His researches in the middle Cretaceous of Utah indicate that the origins of Alaska and the first great Asian-North American faunal interchange occurred about 100 million years ago, which his numerous trips to China and Mongolia have substantiated.
This lecture is possible thanks to Fundación Conjunto Paleontológico de Teruel - Dinópolis. We are very thankful to them.
An expert on the Mesozoic, he has spent forty years excavating fossils across the southwestern US and Mexico authoring and coauthoring more than 80 professional papers. The reconstruction of ancient marine and terrestrial environments, biostratigraphy, paleobiogeography, paleoecology, and mass extinctions are some of his interests. He has discovered and described numerous new dinosaurs including several new armored dinosaurs, bipedal plant-eaters, the oldest truly horned-dinosaur, North America’s first sickle-clawed therizinosaurid, and the giant dromaeosaur Utahraptor. His researches in the middle Cretaceous of Utah indicate that the origins of Alaska and the first great Asian-North American faunal interchange occurred about 100 million years ago, which his numerous trips to China and Mongolia have substantiated.
This lecture is possible thanks to Fundación Conjunto Paleontológico de Teruel - Dinópolis. We are very thankful to them.
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