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:
More information Year, Taxon ...
| Year |
Taxon |
Authors |
|---|
| 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] |
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