Gerald Mayr. Ornithological Section, Senckenberg Research Institute and Natural History Museum Frankfurt, Senckenberganlage 25, 60325 Frankfurt am Main, Germany. Corresponding author. Gerald.Mayr@senckenberg.de
Gerald Mayr is curator of the ornithological collections of Senckenberg Research Institute Frankfurt (Germany). His research focuses on Paleogene avifaunas and the interrelationships and evolution of modern birds.
Cécile Mourer-Chauviré. Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, Laboratoire de Géologie de Lyon: Terre, Planètes, Environnement, UMR CNRS 5276, F-69622 Villeurbanne, France. cecile.mourer@gmail.com
Cécile-Mourer-Chauviré is an avian palaeontologist, who studied Pleistocene and insular avifaunas, some of them recently extinct, from many different localities, as well as other Cenozoic fossils. From 1985 until her retirement in 2005 she was appointed director of research in CNRS at Claude Bernard University Lyon 1.
Estelle Bourdon. Laboratoire Informatique et Systématique, Institut de Systématique, Évolution, Biodiversité, UMR CNRS 7205, F-75005 Paris, France. esguelay@gmail.com
Estelle Bourdon has worked on a broad range of topics in avian evolution and paleontology, with a focus on Paleogene fossils and the evolution of brain morphology in birds. Further research involved the morphology and osteohistology of palaeognathous birds. Currently, she works research associate at the Laboratoire Informatique et Systématique of Sorbonne University in Paris.
Michael Stache. Natural Sciences Collections, Geiseltalmuseum of Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg, Halle/Saale, Germany. michael.stache@zns.uni-halle.de
Michael Stache is geological preparator at the Geiseltalmuseum of Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg, Halle/Saale. His research interests include vertebrate fossils from the Geisel Valley and their preservation and stratigraphic context.
