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: YearTaxonAuthors2025Pseudocrypturus gracilipes sp. nov.Mayr & Kitchener 2024Lumbrerornis rougieri gen. et sp. nov.Bertelli, Giannini, García-López, Deraco, Babot, Del Papa, Armella, Herrera, & Mayr 2024Ypresicolius sandcoleiformis gen. et sp. nov.Mayr & Kitchener 2023Tynskya crassitarsus sp. nov.Mayr & Kitchener 2023Tynskya brevitarsus sp. nov.Mayr & Kitchener 2023Eotrogon stenorhynchus gen. et sp. nov.Mayr, De Pietri, & Kitchener 2022Allgoviachen tortonica gen. et sp. nov.Mayr, Lechner, & Böhme 2021Archaeodromus anglicus gen. et sp. nov.Mayr 2020Aviraptor longicrus gen. et sp. nov.Mayr & Hurum 2020Primoptynx poliotauros gen. et sp. nov.Mayr, Gingerich, & Smith 2014Baselrallus intermedius gen. et sp. nov.De Pietri & Mayr 2013Qianshanornis rapax gen. et sp. nov.Mayr, Yang, De Bast, Li, & Smith 2011Hoazinavis lacustris gen. et sp. nov.Mayr, Alvarenga, & Mourer-Chauviré 2006Masillaraptor parvunguis gen. et sp. nov.Mayr 2005Protocypselomorphus manfredkelleri gen. et sp. nov.Mayr 2000Tynskya eocaena gen. et sp. nov.Mayr