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Gerald Mayr is a German paleontology who is Curator of Ornithology at the Senckenberg Research Institute in Frankfurt, Hesse. He has published extensively on fossil , especially the Paleogene avifauna of Europe.Mayr, Gerald (2016). Avian evolution: the fossil record of birds and its paleobiological significance. Topics in Paleobiology. Wiley-Blackwell. p. 306. . He is an expert on the Eocene fauna of the Messel pit.
In 2022, alongside Thomas Lechner and Madelaine Böhme, Mayr described Allgoviachen, a new genus and species of Anatidae bird from the Hammerschmiede clay pits of Bavaria, Germany.
Below is a list of taxa that Mayr has contributed to naming:
| 2025 | Pseudocrypturus sp. nov. | Mayr & Kitchener |
| 2025 | Pseudocrypturus sp. nov. | Mayr & Kitchener |
| 2024 | Lumbrerornis gen. et sp. nov. | Bertelli, Giannini, García-López, Deraco, Babot, Del Papa, Armella, Herrera, & Mayr |
| 2024 | Ypresicolius gen. et sp. nov. | Mayr & Kitchener |
| 2023 | Tynskya sp. nov. | Mayr & Kitchener |
| 2023 | Tynskya sp. nov. | Mayr & Kitchener |
| 2023 | Perplexicervix sp. nov. | Mayr, Carrió, & Kitchener |
| 2023 | Eotrogon gen. et sp. nov. | Mayr, De Pietri, & Kitchener |
| 2022 | Allgoviachen gen. et sp. nov. | Mayr, Lechner, & Böhme |
| 2021 | Tynskya sp. nov. | Mayr |
| 2021 | Archaeodromus gen. et sp. nov. | Mayr |
| 2020 | Aviraptor gen. et sp. nov. | Mayr & Hurum |
| 2020 | Primoptynx gen. et sp. nov. | Mayr, Gingerich, & Smith |
| 2014 | Baselrallus gen. et sp. nov. | De Pietri & Mayr |
| 2013 | Qianshanornis gen. et sp. nov. | Mayr, Yang, De Bast, Li, & Smith |
| 2011 | Hoazinavis gen. et sp. nov. | Mayr, Alvarenga, & Mourer-Chauviré |
| 2006 | Masillaraptor gen. et sp. nov. | Mayr |
| 2005 | Protocypselomorphus manfredkelleri gen. et sp. nov. | Mayr |
| 2000 | Tynskya gen. et sp. nov. | Mayr |
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