It lived in the lower-middle Paleocene (about 63–58 million years ago) and the fossil remains have been found in China.

The genus Bemalambda was established in 1973 on the basis of some fossils found in the area of Nanxiong in the Lofochai formation (Guangdong, China), dating back to the lower/middle Paleocene.

Subsequently, in Jiangxi, fossils of a slightly more recent species (Middle Paleocene) were found, B. dingae.

Bemalambda is a rather atypical representative of the pantodonts, a group of archaic mammals with the characteristic ambdodon teeth.

The representatives of the Bemalambda genus were animals with a strong and robust build, with a herbivorous or perhaps omnivorous diet.