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.Mayr, Gerald (2016). Avian evolution: the fossil record of birds and its paleobiological significance. Topics in Paleobiology. Wiley-Blackwell. p. 306. . 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: YearTaxonAuthors2025Pseudocrypturus gracilipes sp. nov.Mayr & Kitchener2025Pseudocrypturus danielsi sp. nov.Mayr & Kitchener2024Lumbrerornis rougieri gen. et sp. nov.Bertelli, Giannini, García-López, Deraco, Babot, Del Papa, Armella, Herrera, & Mayr2024Ypresicolius sandcoleiformis gen. et sp. nov.Mayr & Kitchener2023Tynskya crassitarsus sp. nov.Mayr & Kitchener2023Tynskya brevitarsus sp. nov.Mayr & Kitchener2023Perplexicervix paucituberculata sp. nov.Mayr, Carrió, & Kitchener2023Eotrogon stenorhynchus gen. et sp. nov.Mayr, De Pietri, & Kitchener2022Allgoviachen tortonica gen. et sp. nov.Mayr, Lechner, & Böhme2021Tynskya waltonensis sp. nov.Mayr2021Archaeodromus anglicus gen. et sp. nov.Mayr2020Aviraptor longicrus gen. et sp. nov.Mayr & Hurum2020Primoptynx poliotauros gen. et sp. nov.Mayr, Gingerich, & Smith2014Baselrallus intermedius gen. et sp. nov.De Pietri & Mayr2013Qianshanornis rapax gen. et sp. nov.Mayr, Yang, De Bast, Li, & Smith2011Hoazinavis lacustris gen. et sp. nov.Mayr, Alvarenga, & Mourer-Chauviré2006Masillaraptor parvunguis gen. et sp. nov.Mayr2005Protocypselomorphus manfredkelleri gen. et sp. nov.Mayr2000Tynskya eocaena gen. et sp. nov.Mayr
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