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. He is an expert on the Eocene fauna of the Messel pit.

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.

Below is a list of taxa that Mayr has contributed to naming: {| class="wikitable sortable" !Year !Taxon !Authors |- |2025 |''Pseudocrypturus gracilipes'' sp. nov. |Mayr & Kitchener |- |2025 |''Pseudocrypturus danielsi'' sp. nov. |Mayr & Kitchener |- |2024 |''Lumbrerornis rougieri'' gen. et sp. nov. |Bertelli, Giannini, García-López, Deraco, Babot, Del Papa, Armella, Herrera, & Mayr |- |2024 |''Ypresicolius sandcoleiformis'' gen. et sp. nov. |Mayr & Kitchener |- |2023 |''Tynskya crassitarsus'' sp. nov. |Mayr & Kitchener |- |2023 |''Tynskya brevitarsus'' sp. nov. |Mayr & Kitchener |- |2023 |''Perplexicervix paucituberculata'' sp. nov. |Mayr, Carrió, & Kitchener |- |2023 |''Eotrogon stenorhynchus'' gen. et sp. nov. |Mayr, De Pietri, & Kitchener |- |2022 |''Allgoviachen tortonica'' gen. et sp. nov. |Mayr, Lechner, & Böhme |- |2021 |''Tynskya waltonensis'' sp. nov. |Mayr |- |2021 |''Archaeodromus anglicus'' gen. et sp. nov. |Mayr |- |2020 |''Aviraptor longicrus'' gen. et sp. nov. |Mayr & Hurum |- |2020 |''Primoptynx poliotauros'' gen. et sp. nov. |Mayr, Gingerich, & Smith |- |2014 |''Baselrallus intermedius'' gen. et sp. nov. |De Pietri & Mayr |- |2013 |''Qianshanornis rapax'' gen. et sp. nov. |Mayr, Yang, De Bast, Li, & Smith |- |2011 |''Hoazinavis lacustris'' gen. et sp. nov. |Mayr, Alvarenga, & Mourer-Chauviré |- |2006 |''Masillaraptor parvunguis'' gen. et sp. nov. |Mayr |- |2005 |''Protocypselomorphus manfredkelleri'' gen. et sp. nov. |Mayr |- |2000 |''Tynskya eocaena'' gen. et sp. nov. |Mayr |} Provided by Wikipedia