Stemmiulidae
Stemmiulida is an order of millipedes consisting of approximately 130 species, reaching up to 50 mm in length. It contains a single family, Stemmiulidae.

Armand Richard Nzoko Fiemapong , Paul Serge Mbenoun Masse , Joseph Lebel Tamesse , Sergei Ilyich Golovatch , Didier V… · CC BY 4.0 · 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
- StemmiulidaPBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
Time the record covers
At most 9.3 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 23.04 Mya and 13.82 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
4 occurrences of Stemmiulidae on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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
4 occurrences- Miocene100%
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.
Stemmiulidae and its relatives
MioceneWhere Stemmiulidae and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
424 taxa- Polydesmida2 sites
- Siphonophora2 sites
- Xystodesmidae2 sites
- Acanthognathus poinari1 site
- Acaricoris robertae1 site
- Aglyptinus poinari1 site
- Aivalykus dominicanus1 site
- Alethaxius1 site
- Allecula1 site
- Amberoderma beali1 site
- Anchonus acrolepidotus1 site
- Anlemmus leptorhinus1 site
- Anopheles (Nyssorhynchus) dominicanus1 site
- Anoplius planeta1 site
- Anthonomus (Anthomorphus) browni1 site
- Anthonomus (Anthomorphus) cruraluma1 site
- Anthonomus aphelomerus1 site
- Apharosoma euryrhina1 site
- Aphelopus poinari1 site
- Aphrastomyia planistylus1 site
- Apifilaria proplebiae1 site
- Apionion formoculus1 site
- Apionion homochronon1 site
- Apionion kallimosum1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Stemmiulidae, 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
3 references- The millipedes and centipedes of Chiapas amber2
- A fossil stemmiulid millipede (Diplopoda: Stemmiulida) from the Miocene amber of Simojovel, Chiapas, Mexico1
- Millipeds from Dominican amber, with the description of two new species (Diplopoda: Siphonophoridae) of Siphonophora1
Each of the 4 occurrences 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 Stemmiulidae
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- Armand Richard Nzoko Fiemapong , Paul Serge Mbenoun Masse , Joseph Lebel Tamesse , Sergei Ilyich Golovatch , Didier V…
- Licence
- CC BY 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Stemmiulidae 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
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itStemmiulida through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Pocock 1894