Editing Corvidae (section)

=== Fossil record ===
The earliest corvid [[fossil]]s date to mid-[[Miocene]] Europe,<ref>{{Cite journal | last1 = Mourer-Chauviré | first1 = C. C. | title = Cenozoic Birds of the World, Part 1: Europe | journal = The Auk | volume = 121 | issue = 2 | page = 623 | year = 2004 | doi = 10.1642/0004-8038(2004)121[0623:CBOTWP]2.0.CO;2 | s2cid = 86482094 }}</ref> about 17&nbsp;million years ago; ''[[Miocorvus]]'' and ''[[Miopica]]'' may be ancestral to crows and some of the magpie lineage, respectively, or similar to the living forms, due to [[convergent evolution]]. The known prehistoric corvid genera appear to be mainly of the New World and Old World jay and Holarctic magpie lineages:

* ''[[Miocorvus]]'' ([[Middle Miocene]] of [[Sansan, Gers]] in southwestern [[France]])<!-- Auk54:174;121:1155. Condor54:174. -->
* ''[[Miopica]]'' (Middle Miocene of SW Ukraine)
* ''[[Miocitta]]'' (Pawnee Creek Late Miocene of Logan County, US)
* Corvidae gen. et sp. indet. (Edson [[Early Pliocene]] of [[Sherman County, Kansas]], US)<ref>[[Anatomical terms of location#Proximal and distal|Proximal]] right [[coracoid]] of a jay-sized bird, perhaps an Holarctic magpie distinct from ''Pica'': {{cite journal |last=Wetmore |first=Alexander |title=The Eared Grebe and other Birds from the Pliocene of Kansas |journal=[[Condor (journal)|Condor]] |volume=39 |issue=1 |pages=36–44 |url=http://sora.unm.edu/sites/default/files/journals/condor/v039n01/p0040-p0040.pdf | doi = 10.2307/1363487|jstor=1363487 |year=1937 }}</ref>
* ''[[Protocitta]]'' (Early Pleistocene of Reddick, US)
* Corvidae gen. et sp. indet. (Early/Middle Pleistocene of Sicily) – probably belongs in an extant genus<!-- IntGeolCongr32FieldTripGuideBookB07. -->
* ''[[Henocitta]]'' (Arredondo Clay Middle Pleistocene of Williston, US)

In addition, there are numerous fossil species of extant genera since the [[Miocene|Mio]]–[[Pliocene]], mainly European ''Corvus''.{{efn|See the genus accounts for more.}}