Gerald Mayr
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:
| Year | Taxon | Authors |
|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Lumbrerornis rougieri gen. et sp. nov. | Bertelli, Giannini, García-López, Deraco, Babot, Del Papa, Armella, Herrera, & Mayr[5] |
| 2023 | Tynskya crassitarsus sp. nov. | Mayr & Kitchener[6] |
| 2023 | Tynskya brevitarsus sp. nov. | Mayr & Kitchener[6] |
| 2023 | Eotrogon stenorhynchus gen. et sp. nov. | Mayr, De Pietri, & Kitchener[7] |
| 2022 | Allgoviachen tortonica gen. et sp. nov. | Mayr, Lechner, & Böhme[4] |
| 2021 | Archaeodromus anglicus gen. et sp. nov. | Mayr[8] |
| 2020 | Aviraptor longicrus gen. et sp. nov. | Mayr & Hurum[9] |
References
[edit]- ^ 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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