Editing Godwit (section)

==Fossil species==
In addition, there are two or three species of [[fossil]] prehistoric godwits. ''Limosa vanrossemi'' is known from the [[Monterey Formation]] (Late [[Miocene]], approx. 6 [[mya (unit)|mya]]) of [[Lompoc]], United States. ''Limosa lacrimosa'' is known from the Early Pliocene of Western Mongolia ([[Evgeny Kurochkin|Kurochkin]], 1985). ''Limosa gypsorum'' of the Late [[Eocene]] ([[Montmartre Formation]], some 35 mya) of France may have actually been a [[curlew]] or some bird ancestral to both curlews and godwits (and possibly other [[Scolopacidae]]), or even a [[Rallidae|rail]], being placed in the [[monotypic]] genus ''[[Montirallus]]'' by some (Olson, 1985). Certainly, curlews and godwits are rather ancient and in some respects primitive lineages of scolopacids, further complicating the assignment of such possibly [[Basal (phylogenetics)|basal]] forms.<ref>{{cite journal | last1 = Thomas | first1 = Gavin H. | last2 = Wills | first2 = Matthew A. | last3 = Székely | first3 = Tamás | date = 2004 | title = A supertree approach to shorebird phylogeny | journal =[[BMC Evolutionary Biology|BMC Evol. Biol.]] | volume = 4 | page = 28 | doi = 10.1186/1471-2148-4-28 | doi-access=free | pmid = 15329156 | pmc=515296}}</ref>

In a 2001 study comparing the ratios cerebrum to brain volumes in various dinosaur species, Hans C. E. Larsson found that more derived dinosaurs generally had proportionally more voluminous cerebrum.<ref name="csaharicus-endo-allo-27" /> ''Limosa gypsorum'', then regarded as a ''[[Numenius (bird)|Numenius]]'' species, was a discrepancy in this general trend.<ref name="csaharicus-endo-allo-30" /> ''L. gypsorum'' was only 63% of the way between a typical reptilian ratio and that of modern birds.<ref name="csaharicus-endo-allo-30" /> However, this may be explainable if the endocast was distorted, as it had been previously depicted in the past by Deschaseaux, who is described by Larsson as calling the endocast "slightly anteroposteriorly sheared and laterally compressed."<ref name="csaharicus-endo-allo-30" />