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]
2024 Ypresicolius sandcoleiformis gen. et sp. nov.Mayr & Kitchener [7]
2023 Tynskya crassitarsus sp. nov.Mayr & Kitchener [8]
2023 Tynskya brevitarsus sp. nov.Mayr & Kitchener [8]
2023 Perplexicervix paucituberculata sp. nov.Mayr, Carrió, & Kitchener [9]
2023 Eotrogon stenorhynchus gen. et sp. nov.Mayr, De Pietri, & Kitchener [10]
2022 Allgoviachen tortonica gen. et sp. nov.Mayr, Lechner, & Böhme [4]
2021 Tynskya waltonensis sp. nov.Mayr [11]
2021 Archaeodromus anglicus gen. et sp. nov.Mayr [12]
2020 Aviraptor longicrus gen. et sp. nov.Mayr & Hurum [13]
2020 Primoptynx poliotauros gen. et sp. nov.Mayr, Gingerich, & Smith [14]
2014 Baselrallus intermedius gen. et sp. nov.De Pietri & Mayr [15]
2013 Qianshanornis rapax gen. et sp. nov.Mayr, Yang, De Bast, Li, & Smith [16]
2011 Hoazinavis lacustris gen. et sp. nov.Mayr, Alvarenga, & Mourer-Chauviré [17]
2006 Masillaraptor parvunguis gen. et sp. nov.Mayr [18]
2005 Protocypselomorphus manfredkelleri gen. et sp. nov.Mayr [19]
2000 Tynskya eocaena gen. et sp. nov.Mayr [20]

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. ↑ Mayr, Gerald; Kitchener, Andrew C. (12 December 2024). "A new mousebird (Aves, Coliiformes) from the early Eocene London Clay of Walton-on-the-Naze (Essex, United Kingdom) constitutes a morphological link between sandcoleids and coliids". Geodiversitas . 46 (20). doi:10.5252/geodiversitas2024v46a20. ISSN   1280-9659 . Retrieved 1 March 2025– via BioOne Digital Library.
  8. 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.
  9. ↑ 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.
  10. ↑ 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.
  11. ↑ Mayr, Gerald (1 March 2021). "A partial skeleton of a new species of Tynskya Mayr, 2000 (Aves, Messelasturidae) from the London Clay highlights the osteological distinctness of a poorly known early Eocene "owl/parrot mosaic"". PalZ . 95 (2): 337–357. doi:10.1007/s12542-020-00541-8. ISSN   0031-0220 . Retrieved 4 March 2025– via Springer Nature Link.
  12. ↑ 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.
  13. ↑ 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.
  14. ↑ Mayr, Gerald; Gingerich, Philip D.; Smith, Thierry (3 May 2020). "Skeleton of a new owl from the early Eocene of North America (Aves, Strigiformes) with an accipitrid-like foot morphology". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology . 40 (2): e1769116. doi:10.1080/02724634.2020.1769116. ISSN   0272-4634 . Retrieved 27 February 2025– via Taylor and Francis Online.
  15. ↑ De Pietri, Vanesa L.; Mayr, Gerald (10 May 2014). "Reappraisal of early Miocene rails (Aves, Rallidae) from central France: diversity and character evolution". Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research . 52 (4): 312–322. doi:10.1111/jzs.12074 . Retrieved 24 February 2025– via Wiley Online Library.
  16. ↑ Mayr, Gerald; Yang, Jian; Bast, Eric De; Li, Cheng-Sen; Smith, Thierry (25 June 2013). "A Strigogyps -like bird from the middle Paleocene of China with an unusual grasping foot". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology . 33 (4): 895–901. doi:10.1080/02724634.2013.748059. ISSN   0272-4634 . Retrieved 4 March 2025– via Taylor and Francis Online.
  17. ↑ 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.
  18. ↑ 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.
  19. ↑ Mayr, Gerald (1 May 2005). "A New Cypselomorph Bird from the Middle Eocene of Germany and the Early Diversification of Avian Aerial Insectivores". The Condor . 107 (2): 342–352. doi:10.1093/condor/107.2.342. ISSN   0010-5422 . Retrieved 27 February 2025– via Oxford Academic.
  20. ↑ Mayr, Gerald (May 2000). "A new raptor-like bird from the Lower Eocene of North America and Europe". Senckenbergiana Lethaea . 80 (1): 59–65. doi:10.1007/BF03043664. ISSN   0037-2110 . Retrieved 4 March 2025– via Springer Nature Link.


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