Editing Gull (section)

==Evolutionary history==
The Laridae are known from not-yet-published [[fossil]] evidence since the [[Early Oligocene]], some 30–33 million years ago. Three gull-like species were described by [[Alphonse Milne-Edwards]] from the early Miocene of Saint-Gérand-le-Puy, France. A fossil gull from the [[Middle Miocene|Middle]] to [[Late Miocene]] of [[Cherry County, Nebraska]], US, is placed in the prehistoric genus ''[[Gaviota (bird)|Gaviota]]'';<ref>Miller, A. H. and Sibley (1941) described ''Gaviota niobrara'' from the upper Miocene of Nebraska</ref><!-- JSystPaleontol5:1. --> apart from this and the undescribed Early Oligocene fossil, all prehistoric species were tentatively assigned to the modern genus ''Larus''. Among those of them that have been confirmed as gulls, Milne-Edwards' ''"Larus" elegans'' and ''"L." totanoides'' from the Late Oligocene/[[Early Miocene]] of southeast [[France]] have since been separated in ''[[Laricola]]''.<ref>{{cite journal|doi=10.1080/02724634.2011.586663|title=A revision of the Lari (Aves, Charadriiformes) from the early Miocene of Saint-Gérand-le-Puy (Allier, France)|journal=Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology|volume=31|issue=4|pages=812–828| vauthors = De Pietri VL | year=2011 |bibcode=2011JVPal..31..812D |s2cid=84758271}}</ref><!-- AnnNHMusWien104A:237. Geobios36:719. JSystPaleontol5:1. -->