• Gerald Mayr is a German palaeontologist who is Curator of Ornithology at the Senckenberg Research Institute in Frankfurt am Main, Hesse. He has published...
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    (0.55 in) and the metacarpus 0.8 cm (0.31 in). German palaeontologist Gerald Mayr likens the fossil to the Sylphornithidae, described as small, long-legged...
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    from the Tremembé Formation of São Paulo, Brazil. It was first named by Gerald Mayr, Herculano Alvarenga and Cécile Mourer-Chauviré in 2011 and the type...
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  • Mongolia. In 2016, Gerald Mayr described E. gulottai from the early Eocene Nanjemoy Formation in Virginia. However, in 2022, Mayr, alongside Andrew C...
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    a possible phorusrhacid instead. In 2009, the German paleontologist Gerald Mayr suggested that both D? cotei and E. helveticus are neognaths and they...
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    early Paleocene, around 60 million years ago. The German palaeontologist Gerald Mayr has questioned the validity of these early dates and suggested that inappropriate...
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    wrist joint which are used to climb among the branches of the nest tree. Gerald Mayr and Vanesa L. De Pietri (2014). "Earliest and first Northern Hemispheric...
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  • in 1984. This specimen was described as Pristeanis minor in 2024 by Gerald Mayr and Andrew Kitchener. Also referred to Pristineanis was NMS.Z.2021.40...
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    PMID 25504713. Kuhl, Heiner; Frankl-Vilches, Carolina; Bakker, Antje; Mayr, Gerald; Nikolaus, Gerhard; Boerno, Stefan T; Klages, Sven; Timmermann, Bernd;...
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    analyses due to the fragmentary nature of the holotype. Notably, in 2014, Gerald Mayr suggested that Austinornis is a non-neornithine from the Coniacian or...
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    below is the result of a 2017 analysis by McLachlan and colleagues. Gerald Mayr, Vlad Codrea, Alexandru Solomon, Marian Bordeianu, Thierry Smith (2020)...
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    it seems more primitive in other features. It was first described by Gerald Mayr and Albrecht Manegold. A 2024 study found strong support for it and the...
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    Oligocene deposits in the Mainz basin, Germany, and was described in 2006 by Gerald Mayr. The genus name Pandion derives from Pandíōn Πανδίων, the mythical Greek...
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    the family, Bathornis, according to a 2016 analysis by paleontologist Gerald Mayr, who noted that Bathornis was more lightly built, with longer limbs proportionally...
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    hdl:11336/80002. ISSN 0272-4634. JSTOR 20627072. Jorge I. Noriega; Gerald Mayr (2017). "The systematic affinities of the putative seriema Noriegavis...
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    variety of species at various sizes, from the Eocene to the Miocene. Gerald Mayr (2009). Paleogene Fossil Birds Olson, Storrs L. (1985): Section X.A.I...
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    Aequornithes (category Taxa named by Gerald Mayr)
    38: 108–127. doi:10.1093/molbev/msaa191. PMC 7783168. PMID 32781465. Mayr, Gerald (2011). "Metaves, Mirandornithes, Strisores and other novelties – a critical...
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  • analyses due to the fragmentary nature of the holotype. Notably, in 2014, Gerald Mayr suggested that Austinornis is a non-neornithine from the Coniacian or...
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    had not been securely identifiable as those of hummingbirds. In 2004, Gerald Mayr identified two 30-million-year-old hummingbird fossils. The fossils of...
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    S2CID 18212799. Archived from the original (PDF) on 28 July 2010. Gerald Mayr: Gastornithidae. In: Gerald Mayr: Paleogene Fossil Birds. Springer-Verlag, Berlin und...
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  • second toes as well as a widened medial condyle of the tibiotarsus. Gerald Mayr (1 April 2009). Paleogene Fossil Birds. Springer Science & Business Media...
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    contemporaneous European sites". Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 46 (3): 393-402 Gerald Mayr (2005). "A Fluvioviridavis-like Bird from the Middle Eocene of Messel...
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    more rail-like in its proportions. In the paper describing the fossil, Gerald Mayr suggested that it was similar to the stem species of the grues (the cranes...
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    inexpectatus is Latin for "unexpected", indicative of the surprise felt by Gerald Mayr and his team when they discovered a modern-type fossil hummingbird in...
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    Linnean Society. 170 (3): 467–493. doi:10.1111/zoj.12072. ISSN 1096-3642. Mayr, Gerald; Goedert, James L.; Vogel, Olaf (2015-07-04). "Oligocene plotopterid...
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    time' perspective". scientificamerican.com. Retrieved 12 April 2018. Gerald Mayr, Exceptionally preserved plant parenchyma in the digestive tract indicates...
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    Although initially described as a vegaviid, the German paleontologist Gerald Mayr suggested that this genus more likely belongs to the Procellariiformes...
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    the Eocene aged Green River Formation in the western United States by Gerald Mayr in 2000, with indeterminate similar remains also being noted from the...
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    Clymenoptilon (category Taxa named by Gerald Mayr)
    Protodontopteryx, also one of the oldest representatives of its order. Mayr, Gerald; De Pietri, Vanesa L.; Love, Leigh; Mannering, Al; Crouch, Erica; Reid...
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  • doi:10.5710/AMGH.25.03.2017.3062. S2CID 83814434. Fiann M. Smithwick; Gerald Mayr; Evan T. Saitta; Michael J. Benton; Jakob Vinther (2017). "On the purported...
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