The fossil material of Chabardella was discovered in the Saint-Louis opencast pit in Montceau-les-Mines, France, which dates to the Stephanian B and C substages of the Late Carboniferous period.

The generic name honors D. Chabard, who was curator of the Muséum d'histoire naturelle d'Autun and therefore in charge of the Montceau-les-Mines fossil collection.

Like other mantis shrimps, Chabardella has raptorial maxillipeds (feeding appendages): the second to fifth segments of the thorax each bear a pair of enlarged thoracopods which would have been used to capture prey.

[2] Smith et al. (2023) conducted a phylogenetic analysis which also placed Chabardella in an unresolved polytomy, and further suggests the incomplete knowledge of Daidal pattoni may have also led to this result.

Archaeocaris vermiformis Archaeocaris graffhami †Bairdops elegans Perimecturus parki Perimecturus rapax †Bairdops beargulchensis †Daidal pattoni †Daidal schoellmanni †Daidal acanthocercus Gorgonophontes fraiponti Gorgonophontes peleron †Chabardella spinosa †Tyrannophontes theridion †Tyrannophontes gigantion †Triassosculda ahyongi †Tyrannosculda laurae †Pseudosculda laevis †Archaeosculda phoenicia †Sculda pennata †Sculda syriaca †Ursquilla yehoachi †Lysiosquilla nkporoensis †Nodosculda fisherorum Squilla mantis