Gerald Mayr is a German palaeontologist who is Curator of Ornithology at the Senckenberg Research Institute in Frankfurt am Main, Hesse. He has published extensively on fossil birds, especially the Paleogene avifauna of Europe. He is an expert on the Eocene fauna of the Messel pit.
In 2022, alongside Thomas Lechner and Madelaine Böhme, Mayr described Allgoviachen tortonica, a new genus and species of anatid bird from the Hammerschmiede clay pits of Bavaria, Germany.
Below is a list of taxa that Mayr has contributed to naming:
| Year | Taxon | Authors |
|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Lumbrerornis rougieri gen. et sp. nov. | Bertelli, Giannini, García-López, Deraco, Babot, Del Papa, Armella, Herrera, & Mayr |
| 2023 | Tynskya crassitarsus sp. nov. | Mayr & Kitchener |
| 2023 | Tynskya brevitarsus sp. nov. | Mayr & Kitchener |
| 2023 | Eotrogon stenorhynchus gen. et sp. nov. | Mayr, De Pietri, & Kitchener |
| 2022 | Allgoviachen tortonica gen. et sp. nov. | Mayr, Lechner, & Böhme |
| 2021 | Archaeodromus anglicus gen. et sp. nov. | Mayr |
| 2020 | Aviraptor longicrus gen. et sp. nov. | Mayr & Hurum |
References
- Mayr, Gerald (2016). Avian evolution: the fossil record of birds and its paleobiological significance. Topics in Paleobiology. Wiley-Blackwell. p. 306. ISBN 978-1-119-02076-9.
- "Dr Gerald Mayr". Senckenberg – World of Diversity. Senckenberg Research Institute. Retrieved 2023-03-06.
- Mayr, Gerald (2009). Paleogene Fossil Birds. Berlin: Springer-Verlag. ISBN 978-3-540-89627-2.
- ^ Mayr, Gerald; Lechner, Thomas; Böhme, Madelaine (2022-03-07). "Nearly complete leg of an unusual, shelduck-sized anseriform bird from the earliest late Miocene hominid locality Hammerschmiede (Germany)". Historical Biology. 35 (4): 465–474. doi:10.1080/08912963.2022.2045285. ISSN 0891-2963. S2CID 247310405.
- Bertelli, Sara; Giannini, Norberto Pedro; García-López, Daniel Alfredo; Deraco, Virginia; Babot, Judith; Del Papa, Cecilia; Armella, Matias Alberto; Herrera, Claudia; Mayr, Gerald (9 November 2024). "The first Eocene bird from Northwestern Argentina". Publicación Electrónica de la Asociación Paleontológica Argentina. 24 (2): 78–89. doi:10.5710/PEAPA.31.05.2024.511. Retrieved 4 January 2025.
- ^ Mayr, Gerald; Kitchener, Andrew C. (28 February 2023). "The Vastanavidae and Messelasturidae (Aves) from the early Eocene London Clay of Walton-on-the-Naze (Essex, UK)". Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie - Abhandlungen. 307 (2): 113–139. doi:10.1127/njgpa/2023/1119. ISSN 0077-7749. Retrieved 4 January 2025.
- Mayr, Gerald; De Pietri, Vanesa L.; Kitchener, Andrew C. (5 May 2023). "Narrow-beaked trogons from the early Eocene London Clay of Walton-on-the-Naze (Essex, UK)". Journal of Ornithology. 164 (4): 749–764. Bibcode:2023JOrni.164..749M. doi:10.1007/s10336-023-02071-x. ISSN 2193-7192. Retrieved 4 January 2025 – via Springer Nature Link.
- Mayr, Gerald (18 July 2021). Lautenschlager, Stephan (ed.). "An early Eocene fossil from the British London Clay elucidates the evolutionary history of the enigmatic Archaeotrogonidae (Aves, Strisores)". Papers in Palaeontology. 7 (4): 2049–2064. Bibcode:2021PPal....7.2049M. doi:10.1002/spp2.1392. ISSN 2056-2799. Retrieved 4 January 2025 – via Wiley Online Library.
- Mayr, Gerald; H. Hurum, Jørn (8 October 2020). "A tiny, long-legged raptor from the early Oligocene of Poland may be the earliest bird-eating diurnal bird of prey". The Science of Nature. 107 (6). doi:10.1007/s00114-020-01703-z. ISSN 0028-1042. PMC 7544617. PMID 33030604. Retrieved 5 January 2025 – via Springer Nature Link.
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