Editing Passerine (section)

====American fossils====
{{See also|Late Quaternary prehistoric birds}}
In the [[Americas]], the fossil record is more scant before the Pleistocene, from which several still-existing families are documented. Apart from the indeterminable [[MACN]]-SC-1411 (Pinturas Early/Middle Miocene of Santa Cruz Province, Argentina),{{efn|Distal right [[humerus]], possibly suboscine.<ref>{{cite journal|author1=Noriega, Jorge I. |author2=Chiappe, Luis M. |name-list-style=amp |year=1991|title= El más antiguo Passeriformes de America del Sur. Presentation at VIII Journadas Argentinas de Paleontologia de Vertebrados |trans-title=The most ancient passerine from South America|journal=Ameghiniana |volume=28|issue=3–4|pages=410|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hqDVeF8W8OkC}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|author1=Noriega, Jorge I. |author2=Chiappe, Luis M. |name-list-style=amp |year=1993|title= An Early Miocene Passeriform from Argentina|journal=[[Auk (journal)|Auk]] |volume=110|issue=4|pages= 936–938|url=http://sora.unm.edu/sites/default/files/journals/auk/v110n04/p0936-p0938.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140313222943/http://sora.unm.edu/sites/default/files/journals/auk/v110n04/p0936-p0938.pdf |archive-date=2014-03-13 |url-status=live|doi= 10.2307/4088653 |jstor=4088653}}</ref>}} an extinct lineage of perching birds has been described from the Late Miocene of California, United States: the [[Palaeoscinidae]] with the single genus ''[[Palaeoscinis]]''. ''"Palaeostruthus" eurius'' (Pliocene of Florida)<!-- Condor84:240 --> probably belongs to an extant family, most likely [[passeroidea]]n.