German palaeontologist
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 .[ 1] Eocene fauna of the Messel pit .[ 2] [ 3]
In 2022, alongside Thomas Lechner and Madelaine Böhme , Mayr described Allgoviachen tortonica anatid bird from the Hammerschmiede clay pits of Bavaria , Germany .[ 4]
Below is a list of taxa that Mayr has contributed to naming:
Year
Taxon
Authors
2024
Lumbrerornis rougieri Bertelli, Giannini, García-López, Deraco, Babot, Del Papa, Armella, Herrera, & Mayr[ 5]
2023
Tynskya crassitarsus Mayr & Kitchener[ 6]
2023
Tynskya brevitarsus Mayr & Kitchener[ 6]
2023
Eotrogon stenorhynchus Mayr, De Pietri, & Kitchener[ 7]
2022
Allgoviachen tortonica Mayr, Lechner, & Böhme[ 4]
2021
Archaeodromus anglicus Mayr[ 8]
2020
Aviraptor longicrus Mayr & Hurum[ 9]
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 ^ a b 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 . ^ a b 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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