Dr. James Kirkland will be our special guest speaker for September. Dr. Kirkland is the state paleontologist of Utah and has been responsible for naming several new genera of fossil mollusks, fish, and dinosaurs. One of Dr. Kirkland’s most important contributions to paleontology is his current research in the Early Cretaceous Cedar Mountain Formation. These rocks have several successive dinosaur faunas consisting of long-necked sauropods, armored ankylosaurs, bipedal, thumb-spike iquanodonts, and a variety of small and large meat-eating dinosaurs of which Utahraptor is the most famous.