Gerald Mayr

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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] He is an expert on the Eocene fauna of the Messel pit. [2] [3]

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. [4]

Below is a list of taxa that Mayr has contributed to naming:

YearTaxonAuthors
2025 Pseudocrypturus gracilipes sp. nov.Mayr & Kitchener [5]
2025 Pseudocrypturus danielsi sp. nov.Mayr & Kitchener [5]
2024 Lumbrerornis rougieri gen. et sp. nov.Bertelli, Giannini, García-López, Deraco, Babot, Del Papa, Armella, Herrera, & Mayr [6]
2023 Tynskya crassitarsus sp. nov.Mayr & Kitchener [7]
2023 Tynskya brevitarsus sp. nov.Mayr & Kitchener [7]
2023 Perplexicervix paucituberculata sp. nov.Mayr, Carrió, & Kitchener [8]
2023 Eotrogon stenorhynchus gen. et sp. nov.Mayr, De Pietri, & Kitchener [9]
2022 Allgoviachen tortonica gen. et sp. nov.Mayr, Lechner, & Böhme [4]
2021 Archaeodromus anglicus gen. et sp. nov.Mayr [10]
2020 Aviraptor longicrus gen. et sp. nov.Mayr & Hurum [11]
2011 Hoazinavis lacustris gen. et sp. nov.Mayr, Alvarenga, & Mourer-Chauviré [12]
2006 Masillaraptor parvunguis gen. et sp. nov.Mayr [13]

References

  1. ↑ 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.
  2. ↑ "Dr Gerald Mayr". Senckenberg – World of Diversity. Senckenberg Research Institute. Retrieved 2023-03-06.
  3. ↑ Mayr, Gerald (2009). Paleogene Fossil Birds. Berlin: Springer-Verlag. ISBN   978-3-540-89627-2.
  4. 1 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.
  5. 1 2 Mayr, Gerald; Kitchener, Andrew C. (7 January 2025). "The Lithornithiformes (Aves) from the early Eocene London Clay of Walton‐on‐the‐Naze (Essex, UK)". Papers in Palaeontology . 11 (1). doi:10.1002/spp2.1611. ISSN   2056-2799 . Retrieved 15 February 2025– via Wiley Online Library.
  6. ↑ 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 24 January 2025.
  7. 1 2 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.
  8. ↑ Mayr, Gerald; Carrió, Vicen; Kitchener, Andrew (2023). "On the "screamer-like" birds from the British London Clay: An archaic anseriform-galliform mosaic and a non-galloanserine "barb-necked" species of Perplexicervix". Palaeontologia Electronica . doi:10.26879/1301 . Retrieved 6 February 2025– via Palaeontologia Electronica.
  9. ↑ 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.
  10. ↑ 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.
  11. ↑ 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.
  12. ↑ Mayr, Gerald; Alvarenga, Herculano; Mourer-Chauviré, Cécile (1 October 2011). "Out of Africa: Fossils shed light on the origin of the hoatzin, an iconic Neotropic bird". Naturwissenschaften . 98 (11): 961–966. doi:10.1007/s00114-011-0849-1. ISSN   0028-1042 . Retrieved 1 February 2025– via Springer Nature Link.
  13. ↑ Mayr, Gerald (2 September 2006). "A new raptorial bird from the Middle Eocene of Messel, Germany". Historical Biology . 18 (2): 99–106. doi:10.1080/08912960600640762. ISSN   0891-2963 . Retrieved 2 February 2025– via Taylor and Francis Online.


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