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 |- |2024 |''Lumbrerornis rougieri'' gen. et sp. nov. |Bertelli, Giannini, García-López, Deraco, Babot, Del Papa, Armella, Herrera, & Mayr |- |2023 |''Tynskya crassitarsus'' sp. nov. |Mayr & Kitchener |- |2023 |''Tynskya brevitarsus'' sp. nov. |Mayr & Kitchener |- |2023 |''Eotrogon stenorhynchus'' gen. et sp. nov. |Mayr, De Pietri, & Kitchener |- |2022 |''Allgoviachen tortonica'' gen. et sp. nov. |Mayr, Lechner, & Böhme |- |2021 |''Archaeodromus anglicus'' gen. et sp. nov. |Mayr |- |2020 |''Aviraptor longicrus'' gen. et sp. nov. |Mayr & Hurum |} Provided by Wikipedia