Gerald Mayr

Gerald Mayr, German palaeontologist.

Senckenberg Research Institute and Natural History Museum Frankfurt, Ornithological Section, Senckenberganlage 25, D-60325 Frankfurt am Main, Germany

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(List may be incomplete)

(List may be incomplete)

Mayr, G. 1999. A new trogon from the Middle Oligocene of Céreste, France. The Auk 116(2): 427–434. DOI: 10.2307/4089376 Reference page.

Mayr, G. 2000. A remarkable new ‘gruiform’ bird from the Middle Eocene of Messel (Hessen, Germany). Paläontologische Zeitschrift 74: 187–194. DOI: 10.1007/BF02987960 Reference page.

Mayr, G., Yang, J., De Bast, E., Li, C. & Smith, T. 2003. A Strigogyps-like bird from the Middle Paleocene of China with an unusual grasping foot. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 33(4): 895–901. DOI: 10.1080/02724634.2013.748059 ResearchGate Reference page.

Mayr, G. & Weidig, I. 2004. The Early Eocene bird Gallinuloides wyomingensis — a stem group representative of Galliformes. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 49(2): 211–217. PDF Reference page.

Mayr, G. 2005. New trogons from the early Tertiary of Germany. Ibis 147(3): 512–518. DOI: 10.1111/j.1474-919x.2005.00421.x Reference page.

Mayr, G. 2009. Paleogene Fossil Birds. Springer-Verlag: Berlin. ISBN 978-3-540-89628-9. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-89628-9 Reference page.
Mayr, G. 2009. A well-preserved second trogon skeleton (Aves, Trogonidae) from the middle Eocene of Messel, Germany. Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments 89 (1–2): 1–6. DOI: 10.1007/s12549-009-0001-9 PDF Reference page.

Mayr, G. 2010. Phylogenetic relationships of the paraphyletic 'caprimulgiform' birds (nightjars and allies). Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research 48(2): 126–137. DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0469.2009.00552.x PDF Reference page.

Mayr, G. "2011" [2010]. Metaves, Mirandornithes, Strisores and other novelties — a critical review of the higher-level phylogeny of neornithine birds. Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research 49(1): 58–76. DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0469.2010.00586.x Reference page.
Mayr, G. & Zvonok, E. 2011. Middle Eocene Pelagornithidae and Gaviiformes (Aves) from the Ukrainian Paratethys. Palaeontology 54(6): 1347–1359. DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-4983.2011.01109.x Reference page.
Mayr, G., Alvarenga, H. & Mourer-Chauviré, C. 2011. Out of Africa: Fossils shed light on the origin of the hoatzin, an iconic Neotropic bird. Naturwissenschaften 98: 961–966. DOI: 10.1007/s00114-011-0849-1 ResearchGate Reference page.

Mayr, G. "2014" [2013]. The Eocene Juncitarsus — its phylogenetic position and significance for the evolution and higher-level affinities of flamingos and grebes. Comptes Rendus Palevol 13(1): 9–18. DOI: 10.1016/j.crpv.2013.07.005 Reference page.
Mayr, G. & De Pietri, V.L. 2014. Earliest and first Northern Hemispheric hoatzin fossils substantiate Old World origin of a "Neotropic endemic". Naturwissenschaften 101: 143–148. DOI: 10.1007/s00114-014-1144-8 ResearchGate Reference page.
Bertelli, S., Chiappe, L.M. & Mayr, G. 2014. Phylogenetic interrelationships of living and extinct Tinamidae, volant palaeognathous birds from the New World. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 172(1): 145–184. DOI: 10.1111/zoj.12156 Reference page.

Mayr, G. 2015. Towards completion of the early Eocene aviary: A new bird group from the Messel oil shale (Aves, Eopachypterygidae, fam. nov.). Zootaxa 4013(2): 252–264. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4013.2.6. Preview (PDF) Reference page.

Mayr, G. 2017. Avian evolution: the fossil record of birds and its paleobiological significance. John Wiley & Sons: Chichester. ISBN 978-1-119-02076-9. Reference page.
Mayr, G., Scofield, R.P., De Pietri, V.L. & Tennyson, A.J.D. 2017. A Paleocene penguin from New Zealand substantiates multiple origins of gigantism in fossil Sphenisciformes. Nature Communications 8 Art. 1927. DOI: 10.1038/s41467-017-01959-6 Reference page.

Mayr, G., De Pietri, V.L., Scofield, R.P. & Worthy, T.H. 2018. 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. Cretaceous Research 86: 178–185. DOI: 10.1016/j.cretres.2018.02.013 Reference page.
Göhlich, U.B. & Mayr, G. "2018" [2017]. The alleged early Miocene Auk Petralca austriaca is a Loon (Aves, Gaviiformes): restudy of a controversial fossil bird. Historical Biology 30(8): 1076–1083. DOI: 10.1080/08912963.2017.1333610 PDF Reference page.

Mayr, G. 2019. Hindlimb morphology of Palaeotis suggests palaeognathous affinities of the Geranoididae and other "crane-like" birds from the Eocene of the Northern Hemisphere. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 64(4): 669–678. DOI: 10.4202/app.00650.2019 ResearchGate Reference page.

Kuhl, H., Frankl-Vilches, C., Bakker, A., Mayr, G., Nikolaus, G., Boerno, S.T., Klages, S. Timmermann, B. & Gahr, M. "2021" [2020] An Unbiased Molecular Approach Using 3′-UTRs Resolves the Avian Family-Level Tree of Life. Molecular Biology and Evolution 38(1): 108–127. DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msaa191 Reference page.
Sangster, G. & Mayr, G. 2021. Feraequornithes: a name for the clade formed by Procellariiformes, Sphenisciformes, Ciconiiformes, Suliformes and Pelecaniformes (Aves). Vertebrate Zoology 71: 49–53. DOI: 10.3897/vz.71.e61728 Reference page.