New bird remains from the early Eocene Nanjemoy Formation of Virginia (USA), including the first records of the Messelasturidae, Psittacopedidae, and Zygodactylidae from the Fisher/Sullivan site

A remarkably complete skeleton from the London Clay provides insights into the morphology and diversity of early Eocene zygodactyl near-passerine birds

(2021) Gerald Mayr   JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC PALAEONTOLOGY

A partial skeleton of a new species of Tynskya Mayr, 2000 (Aves, Messelasturidae) from the London Clay highlights the osteological distinctness of a poorly known early Eocene “owl/parrot mosaic”

(2021) Gerald Mayr   Palaeontologische Zeitschrift

A new zygodactylid species indicates the persistence of stem passerines into the early Oligocene in North America

(2019) Tobin L. Hieronymus et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Oldest Finch-Beaked Birds Reveal Parallel Ecological Radiations in the Earliest Evolution of Passerines

(2019) Daniel T. Ksepka et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Systematics and phylogeny of the Zygodactylidae (Aves, Neognathae) with description of a new species from the early Eocene of Wyoming, USA

(2018) N. Adam Smith et al.   PeerJ

The world’s smallest owl, the earliest unambiguous charadriiform bird, and other avian remains from the early Eocene Nanjemoy Formation of Virginia (USA)

(2016) Gerald Mayr   Palaeontologische Zeitschrift

New species of Primozygodactylus from Messel and the ecomorphology and evolutionary significance of early Eocene zygodactylid birds (Aves, Zygodactylidae)

(2016) Gerald Mayr   HISTORICAL BIOLOGY

The world’s smallest owl, the earliest unambiguous charadriiform bird, and other avian remains from the early Eocene Nanjemoy Formation of Virginia (USA)

(2016) Gerald Mayr   PalZ

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

(2015) Gerald Mayr   ZOOLOGICA SCRIPTA

Eocene fossil is earliest evidence of flower-visiting by birds

(2014) G. Mayr et al.   Biology Letters

Pumiliornis tessellatus Mayr, 1999 revisited — new data on the osteology and possible phylogenetic affinities of an enigmatic Middle Eocene bird

(2013) Gerald Mayr   Palaeontologische Zeitschrift

The first fossil owls (Aves: Strigiformes) from the Paleogene of Asia and a review of the fossil record of Strigiformes

(2011) E. N. Kurochkin et al.   PALEONTOLOGICAL JOURNAL

Podargiform Affinities of the Enigmatic Fluvioviridavis platyrhamphus and the Early Diversification of Strisores (“Caprimulgiformes” + Apodiformes)

(2011) Sterling J. Nesbitt et al.   PLoS One

The phylogeny of charadriiform birds (shorebirds and allies) - reassessing the conflict between morphology and molecules

(2011) GERALD MAYR   ZOOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY

A well-preserved ‘charadriiform-like’ fossil bird from the Early Eocene Fur Formation of Denmark

(2010) SARA BERTELLI et al.   PALAEONTOLOGY

New birds from the Lower Eocene Green River Formation, North America. In Proceedings of the VII International Meeting of the Society of Avian Paleontology and Evolution, ed. W.E. Boles and T.H. Worthy

(2010) Ilka Weidig   RECORDS OF THE AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM