| Molluscan biostratigraphy of the Cretaceous western interior basin, North America EG Kauffman, BB Sageman, JI Kirkland, WP Elder, PJ Harries, T Villamil, ... Evolution of the Western Interior Basin. Geological Association of Canada …, 1993 | 321 | 1993 |
| High-precision 40Ar/39Ar geochronology and the advent of North America’s Late Cretaceous terrestrial fauna RL Cifelli, JI Kirkland, A Weil, AL Deino, BJ Kowallis Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 94 (21), 11163-11167, 1997 | 221 | 1997 |
| Lower to middle Cretaceous dinosaur faunas of the central Colorado Plateau: a key to understanding 35 million years of tectonics, sedimentology, evolution, and biogeography JI Kirkland, B Britt, DL Burge, K Carpenter, R Cifelli, F DeCourten, J Eaton, ... Brigham Young University Geology Studies 42, 69-104, 1997 | 183 | 1997 |
| A large dromaeosaur (Theropoda) from the Lower Cretaceous of eastern Utah JI Kirkland, D Burge, R Gaston Hunteria 2 (10), 1-16, 1993 | 144 | 1993 |
| Cretaceous vertebrate faunas from the Kaiparowits Plateau, south-central Utah JG Eaton, RL Cifelli, JH Hutchison, JI Kirkland, JM Parrish, DD Gillette Vertebrate paleontology in Utah 99 (1), 345-353, 1999 | 142 | 1999 |
| A primitive therizinosauroid dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous of Utah JI Kirkland, LE Zanno, SD Sampson, JM Clark, DD DeBlieux Nature 435 (7038), 84-87, 2005 | 138 | 2005 |
| Distribution of vertebrate faunas in the Cedar Mountain Formation, east-central Utah JI Kirkland, RL Cifelli, BB Britt, DL Burge, FL DeCourten, JG Eaton, ... Vertebrate paleontology in Utah 99 (1), 201, 1999 | 130 | 1999 |
| Medial Cretaceous vertebrates from the Cedar Mountain Formation, Emery County, Utah: the Mussentuchit local fauna RL Cifelli, RL Nydam, JD Gardner, A Weil, JG Eaton, JI Kirkland, ... Vertebrate paleontology in Utah 99 (1), 219-42, 1999 | 127 | 1999 |
| A polacanthine ankylosaur (Ornithischia: Dinosauria) from the Early Cretaceous (Barremian) of eastern Utah JI Kirkland New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin 14, 271-281, 1998 | 126 | 1998 |
| Bird-like anatomy, posture, and behavior revealed by an Early Jurassic theropod dinosaur resting trace ARC Milner, JD Harris, MG Lockley, JI Kirkland, NA Matthews PloS one 4 (3), e4591, 2009 | 122 | 2009 |
| New basal iguanodonts from the Cedar Mountain Formation of Utah and the evolution of thumb-spiked dinosaurs AT McDonald, JI Kirkland, DD DeBlieux, SK Madsen, J Cavin, ARC Milner, ... PLoS One 5 (11), e14075, 2010 | 112 | 2010 |
| A new hadrosaurid from the upper Cedar Mountain Formation (Albian-Cenomanian: Cretaceous) of eastern Utah–the oldest known hadrosaurid (lambeosaurine?) JI Kirkland Lower and Middle Cretaceous Terrestrial Ecosystems. New Mexico Museum of …, 1998 | 111 | 1998 |
| Review of Lower and middle Cretaceous ankylosaurs from North America K CARPENTER¹, JI Kirkland Lower and Middle Cretaceous Terrestrial Ecosystems: Bulletin 14 14, 249, 1998 | 107 | 1998 |
| Selachians from the Greenhorn cyclothem (“middle” Cretaceous: Cenomanian–Turonian), Black Mesa, Arizona, and the paleogeographic distribution of Late Cretaceous selachians TE Williamson, JI Kirkland, SG Lucas Journal of Paleontology 67 (3), 447-474, 1993 | 107 | 1993 |
| A large collection of well-preserved theropod dinosaur swim tracks from the Lower Jurassic Moenave Formation, St. George, Utah ARC Milner, MG Lockley, JI Kirkland, JD Harris New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin 37, 315-328, 2006 | 106 | 2006 |
| Stratigraphy and depositional environments of the Bridge Creek Limestone Member of the Greenhorn Limestone at Rock Canyon Anticline near Pueblo, Colorado WP Elder, JI Kirkland | 105 | 1985 |
| Correlation of Aptian-Albian carbon isotope excursions in continental strata of the Cretaceous foreland basin, eastern Utah, USA GA Ludvigson, RM Joeckel, LA Gonzalez, EL Gulbranson, ET Rasbury, ... Journal of Sedimentary Research 80 (11), 955-974, 2010 | 100 | 2010 |
| Stratigraphic framework and correlation of a principal reference section of the Mancos Shale (Upper Cretaceous), Mesa Verde, Colorado RM Leckie, JI Kirkland, WP Elder, OJ Anderson, BS Kues, SG Lucas 48th Field Conference, Mesozoic Geology and Paleontology of the Four Corners …, 1997 | 96 | 1997 |
| The Lower Cretaceous Cedar Mountain Formation, eastern Utah: the view up an always interesting learning curve:[papers from a symposium of the Geological Society of America, at … JI Kirkland, SK Madsen | 95 | 2007 |
| First definitive therizinosaurid (Dinosauria; Theropoda) from North America JI Kirkland, DG Wolfe Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 21 (3), 410-414, 2001 | 94 | 2001 |
