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]

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. http://www.senckenberg.de/root/index.php?page_id=662. 
  3. ↑ Mayr, Gerald (2009). Paleogene Fossil Birds. Berlin: Springer-Verlag. ISBN 978-3-540-89627-2. 
  4. ↑ 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. 




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