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: