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:
| 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 |