The early Eocene birds of the Messel fossil site: a 48 million-year-old bird community adds a temporal perspective to the evolution of tropical avifaunas

Fragmentary but distinctive: three new avian species from the early Eocene of Messel, with the earliest record of medullary bone in a Cenozoic bird

(2016) Gerald Mayr   NEUES JAHRBUCH FUR GEOLOGIE UND PALAONTOLOGIE-ABHANDLUNGEN

Bird Abundances in Primary and Secondary Growths in Papua New Guinea: A Preliminary Assessment

(2016) Kateřina Tvardíková   Tropical Conservation Science

A new specimen of the Early Eocene Masillacolius brevidactylus and its implications for the evolution of feeding specializations in mousebirds (Coliiformes)

(2015) Gerald Mayr   COMPTES RENDUS PALEVOL

Extant-only comparative methods fail to recover the disparity preserved in the bird fossil record

(2015) Jonathan S. Mitchell   EVOLUTION

A comprehensive phylogeny of birds (Aves) using targeted next-generation DNA sequencing

(2015) Richard O. Prum et al.   NATURE

A reassessment of Eocene parrotlike fossils indicates a previously undetected radiation of zygodactyl stem group representatives of passerines (Passeriformes)

(2015) Gerald Mayr   ZOOLOGICA SCRIPTA

Towards completion of the early Eocene aviary: A new bird group from the Messel oil shale (Aves, Eopachypterygidae, fam. nov.)

(2015) GERALD MAYR   ZOOTAXA

The Dynamics of Incomplete Lineage Sorting across the Ancient Adaptive Radiation of Neoavian Birds

(2015) Alexander Suh et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

Evolution of angiosperm seed disperser mutualisms: the timing of origins and their consequences for coevolutionary interactions between angiosperms and frugivores

(2014) Ove Eriksson   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

Eocene fossil is earliest evidence of flower-visiting by birds

(2014) G. Mayr et al.   Biology Letters

Avian extinction at the end of the Cretaceous: Assessing the magnitude and subsequent explosive radiation

(2014) Alan Feduccia   CRETACEOUS RESEARCH

New palynology-based astronomical and revised 40Ar/39Ar ages for the Eocene maar lake of Messel (Germany)

(2014) Olaf K. Lenz et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF EARTH SCIENCES

Isotopic and anatomical evidence of an herbivorous diet in the Early Tertiary giant bird Gastornis. Implications for the structure of Paleocene terrestrial ecosystems

(2014) D. Angst et al.   NATURWISSENSCHAFTEN

The origins of crown group birds: molecules and fossils

(2014) Gerald Mayr   PALAEONTOLOGY

Whole-genome analyses resolve early branches in the tree of life of modern birds

(2014) E. D. Jarvis et al.   SCIENCE

The Eocene Juncitarsus – its phylogenetic position and significance for the evolution and higher-level affinities of flamingos and grebes

(2013) Gerald Mayr   COMPTES RENDUS PALEVOL

The age of the crown group of passerine birds and its evolutionary significance – molecular calibrations versus the fossil record

(2013) Gerald Mayr   SYSTEMATICS AND BIODIVERSITY

An Update of Wallace's Zoogeographic Regions of the World

(2012) B. G. Holt et al.   SCIENCE

The importance of Messel for interpreting Eocene Holarctic mammalian faunas

(2012) Kenneth D. Rose   Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments

Exceptionally preserved plant parenchyma in the digestive tract indicates a herbivorous diet in the Middle Eocene bird Strigogyps sapea (Ameghinornithidae)

(2011) Gerald Mayr et al.   Palaeontologische Zeitschrift

Mass extinction of birds at the Cretaceous-Paleogene (K-Pg) boundary

(2011) N. R. Longrich et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Impacts of the Cretaceous Terrestrial Revolution and KPg Extinction on Mammal Diversification

(2011) R. W. Meredith et al.   SCIENCE

Two-phase extinction of “Southern Hemispheric” birds in the Cenozoic of Europe and the origin of the Neotropic avifauna

(2011) Gerald Mayr   Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments

Darwinius masillae is a strepsirrhine—a reply to Franzen et al. (2009)

(2010) Blythe A. Williams et al.   JOURNAL OF HUMAN EVOLUTION

Phylogenetic relationships of the paraphyletic ‘caprimulgiform’ birds (nightjars and allies)

(2009) Gerald Mayr   JOURNAL OF ZOOLOGICAL SYSTEMATICS AND EVOLUTIONARY RESEARCH

Adaptive Radiation: Contrasting Theory with Data

(2009) S. Gavrilets et al.   SCIENCE

EVIDENCE OF POSITIVE INDIRECT EFFECTS WITHIN A COMMUNITY OF CAVITY-NESTING VERTEBRATES

(2008) JOHN J. KAPPES et al.   CONDOR