Cranium of an Eocene/Oligocene pheasant-sized galliform bird from western North America, with the description of a vascular autapomorphy of the Galliformes

Endocranial Anatomy of the Giant Extinct Australian Mihirung Birds (Aves, Dromornithidae)

(2021) Warren D. Handley et al.   Diversity-Basel

New late Eocene and Oligocene plotopterid fossils from Washington State (USA), with a revision of “Tonsala” buchanani (Aves, Plotopteridae)

(2021) Gerald Mayr et al.   JOURNAL OF PALEONTOLOGY

First record of a tarsometatarsus of Tonsala hildegardae (Plotopteridae) and other avian remains from the late Eocene/early Oligocene of Washington State (USA)

(2018) Gerald Mayr et al.   GEOBIOS

Multiple origins of secondary temporal fenestrae and orbitozygomatic junctions in birds

(2017) Andrzej Elzanowski et al.   JOURNAL OF ZOOLOGICAL SYSTEMATICS AND EVOLUTIONARY RESEARCH

Avian Cephalic Vascular Anatomy, Sites of Thermal Exchange, and the Rete Ophthalmicum

(2016) WM Ruger Porter et al.   Anatomical Record-Advances in Integrative Anatomy and Evolutionary Biology

New late Eocene and Oligocene remains of the flightless, penguin-like plotopterids (Aves, Plotopteridae) from western Washington State, U.S.A.

(2016) Gerald Mayr et al.   JOURNAL OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY

Osteology Supports a Stem-Galliform Affinity for the Giant Extinct Flightless Bird Sylviornis neocaledoniae (Sylviornithidae, Galloanseres)

(2016) Trevor H. Worthy et al.   PLoS One

Oligocene plotopterid skulls from western North America and their bearing on the phylogenetic affinities of these penguin-like seabirds

(2015) Gerald Mayr et al.   JOURNAL OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY

A new Paleogene procellariiform bird from western North America

(2015) Gerald Mayr   NEUES JAHRBUCH FUR GEOLOGIE UND PALAONTOLOGIE-ABHANDLUNGEN

Assessing Phylogenetic Relationships among Galliformes: A Multigene Phylogeny with Expanded Taxon Sampling in Phasianidae

(2013) Ning Wang et al.   PLoS One

Phylogenetic affinities of evolutionarily enigmatic African galliforms: the Stone PartridgePtilopachus petrosusand Nahan's FrancolinFrancolinus nahani,and support for their sister relationship with New World quails

(2012) Callan Cohen et al.   IBIS

Cenozoic mystery birds - on the phylogenetic affinities of bony-toothed birds (Pelagornithidae)

(2011) Gerald Mayr   ZOOLOGICA SCRIPTA