Gerald Mayr

2000 -

country of citizenship: Germany

languages spoken, written or signed: German, English

educated at: Humboldt University of Berlin

occupation: paleontologist, ornithologist, researcher

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. Source: Wikipedia (en)

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2022-08-21

Southern hemisphere tectonics in the Cenozoic shaped the pantropical distribution of parrots and passerines

Gerald Mayr, Cristina Y. Miyaki, Cláudia A. M. Russo
2022-07-14

Oldest fossil loon documents a pronounced ecomorphological shift in the evolution of gaviiform birds

Gerald Mayr
2021-07-18

An early Eocene fossil from the British London Clay elucidates the evolutionary history of the enigmatic Archaeotrogonidae (Aves, Strisores)

Gerald Mayr
2021-08-05

On the occurrence of lateral openings and fossae (pleurocoels) in the thoracic vertebrae of neornithine birds and their functional significance

Gerald Mayr
2020-05-06

The large-sized darter Anhinga pannonica (Aves, Anhingidae) from the late Miocene hominid Hammerschmiede locality in Southern Germany

Gerald Mayr, Madelaine Böhme
2020-08-31

On the comparative morphology of the juvenile avian skull: An assessment of squamosal shape across avian higher-level taxa

Gerald Mayr
2020-10-08

A tiny, long-legged raptor from the early Oligocene of Poland may be the earliest bird-eating diurnal bird of prey

Gerald Mayr
2020-03-03

Skeleton of a new owl from the early Eocene of North America (Aves, Strigiformes) with an accipitrid-like foot morphology

Gerald Mayr, Philip D. Gingerich, Thierry Smith
2020-11-16

A remarkably complete skeleton from the London Clay provides insights into the morphology and diversity of early Eocene zygodactyl near-passerine birds

Gerald Mayr
2019-02-07

Skeletons from the early Oligocene of Poland fill a significant temporal gap in the fossil record of upupiform birds (hoopoes and allies)

Gerald Mayr, Krzysztof Wertz, Teresa Tomek, Zbigniew M. Bocheński
2019-02-12

Early Eocene (Ypresian) birds from the Okanagan Highlands, British Columbia (Canada) and Washington State (USA)

Gerald Mayr
2019-08-12

Leg bones of a new penguin species from the Waipara Greensand add to the diversity of very large-sized Sphenisciformes in the Paleocene of New Zealand

Gerald Mayr, Vanesa De Pietri, Richard Paul Scofield
2019-07-16

A small, narrow‐beaked albatross from the Pliocene of New Zealand demonstrates a higher past diversity in the feeding ecology of the Diomedeidae

Gerald Mayr, Alan Tennyson
2019-09-17

Oldest, smallest and phylogenetically most basal pelagornithid, from the early Paleocene of New Zealand, sheds light on the evolutionary history of the largest flying birds

Gerald Mayr, Vanesa De Pietri, Richard Paul Scofield
2018-11-09

Melanosome diversity and convergence in the evolution of iridescent avian feathers-implications for paleocolor reconstruction,Melanosome diversity and convergence in the evolution of iridescent avian feathers-Implications for paleocolor reconstruction

Gerald Mayr, Jakob Vinther, Jaeike Faber
2018-12-21

Calcardea junnei Gingerich, 1987 from the late Paleocene of North America is not a heron, but resembles the early Eocene Indian taxon Vastanavis Mayr et al., 2007

Gerald Mayr
2018-07-27

A previously unnoticed vascular trait of the middle ear suggests that a cranial heat-exchange structure contributed to the radiation of cold-adapted songbirds

Gerald Mayr
2018-02-27

Pelvis morphology suggests that early Mesozoic birds were too heavy to contact incubate their eggs.

Gerald Mayr
2018-03-04

Cranial morphology of the Early Cretaceous bird Confuciusornis

Gerald Mayr
2018-06

On the taxonomic composition and phylogenetic affinities of the recently proposed clade Vegaviidae Agnolín et al., 2017 ‒ neornithine birds from the Upper Cretaceous of the Southern Hemisphere

Trevor Worthy, Gerald Mayr, Richard Paul Scofield
2018-02

First record of a tarsometatarsus of Tonsala hildegardae (Plotopteridae) and other avian remains from the late Eocene/early Oligocene of Washington State (USA)

Gerald Mayr
2018-04-19

New data on the anatomy and palaeobiology of sandcoleid mousebirds (Aves, Coliiformes) from the early Eocene of Messel

Gerald Mayr
2018-07-24

Exceptionally well-preserved early Eocene fossil reveals cranial and vertebral features of a stem group roller (Aves: Coraciiformes)

Gerald Mayr, Stig A. Walsh
2018-02-26

On the diverse and widely ignored Paleocene avifauna of Menat (Puy-de-Dôme, France): new taxonomic records and unusual soft tissue preservation

Gerald Mayr, Eric Buffetaut
2018-04-06

A fossil heron from the early Oligocene of Belgium: the earliest temporally well-constrained record of the Ardeidae

Gerald Mayr
2017-12-12

A Paleocene penguin from New Zealand substantiates multiple origins of gigantism in fossil Sphenisciformes.

Vanesa De Pietri, Gerald Mayr, Alan Tennyson, Richard Paul Scofield
2017-10-31

Size and number of the hypoglossal nerve foramina in the avian skull and their potential neuroanatomical significance.

Gerald Mayr
2017-02-23

A new fossil from the mid-Paleocene of New Zealand reveals an unexpected diversity of world's oldest penguins

Gerald Mayr, Vanesa De Pietri, Richard Paul Scofield
2017-04

A small, “wader-like” bird from the Early Eocene of Messel (Germany)

Gerald Mayr
2017-04-17

On the purported presence of fossilized collagen fibres in an ichthyosaur and a theropod dinosaur

Jakob Vinther, Michael J. Benton, Gerald Mayr
2017-06

The alleged early Miocene Auk Petralca austriaca is a Loon (Aves, Gaviiformes): restudy of a controversial fossil bird

Gerald Mayr
2017-11-02

A well-preserved new mid-paleocene penguin (Aves, Sphenisciformes) from the Waipara Greensand in New Zealand

Gerald Mayr, Richard Paul Scofield

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