Editing Sandpiper (section)

==Evolution==
The early [[fossil]] record is scant for a group that was probably present at the non-avian [[dinosaur]]s' extinction. ''"Totanus" teruelensis'' ([[Late Miocene]] of [[Los Mansuetos]] ([[Spain]]) is sometimes considered a scolopacid – maybe a shank – but may well be a [[laridae|larid]]; little is known of it.

''[[Paractitis]]'' has been named from the [[Early Oligocene]] of [[Saskatchewan]] ([[Canada]]), while ''[[Mirolia]]'' is known from the [[Middle Miocene]] at [[Deiningen]] in the [[Nördlinger Ries]] ([[Germany]]). Most living genera would seem to have [[evolution|evolved]] throughout the [[Oligocene]] to [[Miocene]] with the [[wader]]s perhaps a bit later; see the genus accounts for the fossil record.

In addition there are some indeterminable remains that might belong to extant genera or their extinct relatives:
* Scolopacidae gen. et sp. indet. (Middle Miocene of Františkovy Lázně, Czech Republic – Late Miocene of Kohfidisch, Austria)
* Scolopacidae gen. et sp. indet. (Edson Early Pliocene of [[Sherman County, Kansas]], United States){{#tag:ref|A [[Anatomical terms of location#Proximal and distal|distal]] right [[tarsometatarsus]] of a bird roughly similar to a [[pectoral sandpiper]]. Probably [[calidrid]] or basal to them, somewhat reminiscent of [[turnstone]]s.<ref>{{cite journal|author-link=Alexander Wetmore|last=Wetmore|first=Alexander|year=1937|title= The Eared Grebe and other Birds from the Pliocene of Kansas|journal=[[Condor (journal)|Condor]]|volume=39|issue=1|page= 40|url=http://sora.unm.edu/sites/default/files/journals/condor/v039n01/p0040-p0040.pdf|doi=10.2307/1363487|jstor=1363487}}</ref>|group="note"}}