Cambalidae
Cambalidae is a family of millipedes in the order Spirostreptida. There are at least 20 genera and 80 described species in Cambalidae.

William A. Shear · CC0 · 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
- CambalideaPBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
Time the record covers
At most 6.6 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 100.5 Mya and 93.9 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Cambalidae on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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- Late Cretaceous100%
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.
Cambalidae and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Cambalidae and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
35 taxa- Amberclipsis oblongus1 site
- Amberclipsis simplex1 site
- Andrognathus burmiticus1 site
- Burmanopetalum inexpectatum1 site
- Cambalidea1 site
- Cretapsyche kachini1 site
- Cretapsyche myanmari1 site
- Electrocentropus dilucidus1 site
- Glomerida1 site
- Glomeridesmidae1 site
- Heterobathmilla kakopoios1 site
- Heterochordeumatidae1 site
- Kinitocelis patrickmuelleri1 site
- Laeviglyphiulus patrickmuelleri1 site
- Paduniella cretacea1 site
- Palaeopsilotreta1 site
- Palaeopsilotreta burmanica1 site
- Palaeopsilotreta cretacea1 site
- Palaeopsilotreta succini1 site
- Palaeopsilotreta xiai1 site
- Palerasnitsynus vilarinoi1 site
- Palleptocerus grimaldii1 site
- Polydesmida1 site
- Protoclipsis picteti1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Cambalidae, 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 Cambalidae
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- William A. Shear
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Cambalidae was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access was 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, “Cambalidae”
- 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 itCambalidea through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Bollman 1893