Biography:Gerald Mayr
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Short description: 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] 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 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
- ↑ 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. https://www.senckenberg.de/de/institute/senckenberg-gesellschaft-fuer-naturforschung-frankfurt-main/abt-terrestrische-zoologie/sekt-ornithologie/ornithologie-team/.
- ↑ Mayr, Gerald (2009). Paleogene Fossil Birds. Berlin: Springer-Verlag. ISBN 978-3-540-89627-2.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 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.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Mayr, Gerald; Kitchener, Andrew C. (7 January 2025). "The Lithornithiformes (Aves) from the early Eocene London Clay of Walton‐on‐the‐Naze (Essex, UK)" (in en). Papers in Palaeontology 11 (1). doi:10.1002/spp2.1611. ISSN 2056-2799. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/spp2.1611. Retrieved 15 February 2025.
- ↑ Bertelli, Sara; Giannini, Norberto Pedro; García-López, Daniel Alfredo; Deraco, Virginia; Babot, Judith; Del Papa, Cecilia; Armella, Matias Alberto; Herrera, Claudia et al. (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. https://peapaleontologica.org.ar//index.php/peapa/article/view/511. Retrieved 24 January 2025.
- ↑ 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. https://bioone.org/journals/geodiversitas/volume-46/issue-20/geodiversitas2024v46a20/A-new-mousebird-Aves-Coliiformes-from-the-early-Eocene-London/10.5252/geodiversitas2024v46a20.short. Retrieved 1 March 2025.
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 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)" (in en). Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie - Abhandlungen 307 (2): 113–139. doi:10.1127/njgpa/2023/1119. ISSN 0077-7749. https://www.schweizerbart.de/papers/njgpa/detail/307/102756/The_Vastanavidae_and_Messelasturidae_Aves_from_the?af=crossref. Retrieved 4 January 2025.
- ↑ 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. https://palaeo-electronica.org/content/current-in-press-articles/3934-birds-from-the-london-clay. Retrieved 6 February 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)" (in en). Journal of Ornithology 164 (4): 749–764. doi:10.1007/s10336-023-02071-x. ISSN 2193-7192. Bibcode: 2023JOrni.164..749M. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10336-023-02071-x. Retrieved 4 January 2025.
- ↑ 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"" (in en). PalZ 95 (2): 337–357. doi:10.1007/s12542-020-00541-8. ISSN 0031-0220. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12542-020-00541-8. Retrieved 4 March 2025.
- ↑ 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)" (in en). Papers in Palaeontology 7 (4): 2049–2064. doi:10.1002/spp2.1392. ISSN 2056-2799. Bibcode: 2021PPal....7.2049M. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/spp2.1392. Retrieved 4 January 2025.
- ↑ 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" (in en). The Science of Nature 107 (6). doi:10.1007/s00114-020-01703-z. ISSN 0028-1042. PMID 33030604. PMC 7544617. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00114-020-01703-z. Retrieved 5 January 2025.
- ↑ 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" (in en). Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 40 (2). doi:10.1080/02724634.2020.1769116. ISSN 0272-4634. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02724634.2020.1769116. Retrieved 27 February 2025.
- ↑ De Pietri, Vanesa L.; Mayr, Gerald (10 May 2014). "Reappraisal of early Miocene rails (Aves, Rallidae) from central France: diversity and character evolution" (in en). Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research 52 (4): 312–322. doi:10.1111/jzs.12074. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jzs.12074. Retrieved 24 February 2025.
- ↑ 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" (in en). Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 33 (4): 895–901. doi:10.1080/02724634.2013.748059. ISSN 0272-4634. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02724634.2013.748059. Retrieved 4 March 2025.
- ↑ Mayr, Gerald (2 September 2006). "A new raptorial bird from the Middle Eocene of Messel, Germany" (in en). Historical Biology 18 (2): 99–106. doi:10.1080/08912960600640762. ISSN 0891-2963. http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/08912960600640762. Retrieved 2 February 2025.
- ↑ Mayr, Gerald (1 May 2005). "A New Cypselomorph Bird from the Middle Eocene of Germany and the Early Diversification of Avian Aerial Insectivores" (in en). The Condor 107 (2): 342–352. doi:10.1093/condor/107.2.342. ISSN 0010-5422. https://academic.oup.com/condor/article/107/2/342/5563414?login=true. Retrieved 27 February 2025.
- ↑ Mayr, Gerald (May 2000). "A new raptor-like bird from the Lower Eocene of North America and Europe" (in en). Senckenbergiana Lethaea 80 (1): 59–65. doi:10.1007/BF03043664. ISSN 0037-2110. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF03043664. Retrieved 4 March 2025.
