Hippocratea
Hippocratea is a genus of flowering plants in the family Celastraceae, usually lianas, native to tropical and subtropical North America, South America and Africa.

Unknown author Unknown author · Public Domain · via Wikipedia/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PlantaePBDB
Time the record covers
At most 1.8 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 1.8 Mya and 0 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Hippocratea on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. Bar height is expected occurrences, not a count: each fossil is spread across the span it is dated to, so a tall narrow bar means tight dating and a low wide one means loose.
When
1 occurrences- Pleistocene99%
- Holocene1%
These are dates about fossils, not the animal: the record can only begin after it arose and end before it died out, so either end may reach further. Shares are expected occurrences: a fossil dated to a span is counted partly in each period it straddles. More on what this infers.
Hippocratea and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Hippocratea and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
37 taxa- Acalypha1 site
- Acanthaceae1 site
- Aizoaceae1 site
- Alchornea1 site
- Antidesma1 site
- Arecaceae1 site
- Bauhinia1 site
- Cadaba1 site
- Caesalpiniaceae1 site
- Celtis1 site
- Cyperaceae1 site
- Dorstenia1 site
- Elaeis guineensis1 site
- Equisetum1 site
- Ericaceae1 site
- Fagara1 site
- Ficus1 site
- Holoptelea1 site
- Hymenocardia sp.1 site
- Indet. indet.1 site
- Julbernardia sp.1 site
- Liliaceae1 site
- Maesa1 site
- Malvaceae1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Hippocratea, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too. The 24 sharing the most are listed.
This is not a list of everything alive at the time. It is only what has come out of the same ground as this animal and been written down.
Entered from
1 referenceEach of the 1 occurrence read was entered from one of these publications, ordered by how many each accounts for. This is not a search for papers mentioning the name. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content1
Picture of Hippocratea
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- Unknown author Unknown author
- Licence
- Public Domain
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Hippocratea was found in Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.
The description on this site
- Source
- Wikipedia, “Hippocratea”
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itPlantae through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Linnaeus 1753