''Roulletia'' is an extinct

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shark Sharks are a group of elasmobranch cartilaginous fish characterized by a ribless endoskeleton, dermal denticles, five to seven gill slits on each side, and pectoral fins that are not fused to the head. Modern sharks are classified within the ...

s in the family Haimirichiidae. It was described by Romain Vullo, Henri Cappetta, and Didier Néraudeau in 2007, and the type species is ''R. bureaui'', which existed during the upper

Cenomanian The Cenomanian is, in the International Commission on Stratigraphy's (ICS) geological timescale, the oldest or earliest age (geology), age of the Late Cretaceous epoch (geology), Epoch or the lowest stage (stratigraphy), stage of the Upper Cretace ...

of what is now

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. The genus was named after its type locality, Roullet-Saint-Estèphe, while the

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honours Michel Bureau, an amateur

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who gathered the material for the species.''New sharks and rays from the Cenomanian and Turonian of Charentes, France.''
Romain Vullo, Henri Cappetta, and Didier Néraudeau, 2007. Another species, ''R. canadensis'', was described from the Cenomanian of

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by Charlie J. Underwood and Stephen L. Cumbaa in 2010. The species epithet refers to the country in which it was discovered.Charlie J. Underwood and Stephen L. Cumbaa (2010). "Chondrichthyans from a Cenomanian (Late Cretaceous) bonebed, Saskatchewan, Canada". Palaeontology 53 (4): 903–944. . It has been suggested tentatively this genus may be related to '' Haimirichia'', which has been placed in its own family ( Haimirichiidae) based on soft-tissue preservation.

References

{{Taxonbar, from=Q7370951 Prehistoric Lamniformes Late Cretaceous fish of North America Cretaceous fish of Europe Fossil taxa described in 2007 Prehistoric shark genera