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.^[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:

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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]

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