Roulletia is an extinct genus of sand sharks (family Odontaspididae). 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 of what is now France. The genus was named after its type locality, Roullet-Saint-Estèphe, while the species epithet honours Michel Bureau, an amateur paleontologist who gathered the material for the species.[3] Another species, R. canadensis, was described from the Cenomanian of Canada by Charlie J. Underwood and Stephen L. Cumbaa in 2010. The species epithet refers to the country in which it was discovered.[4] 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.[5]
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Chondrichthyes |
| Subclass: | Elasmobranchii |
| Subdivision: | Selachimorpha |
| Order: | Lamniformes |
| Family: | †Haimirichiidae |
| Genus: | †Roulletia Vullo, Cappetta, & Néraudeau, 2007[1] |
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| †Roulletia bureaui Vullo et al. 2007
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References
edit- ^ R. Vullo, H. Cappetta, and D. Néraudeau. 2007. New sharks and rays from the Cenomanian and Turonian of Charentes, France. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 52:99–116
- ^ "PBDB Taxon".
- ^ New sharks and rays from the Cenomanian and Turonian of Charentes, France. Romain Vullo, Henri Cappetta, and Didier Néraudeau, 2007.
- ^ Charlie J. Underwood and Stephen L. Cumbaa (2010). "Chondrichthyans from a Cenomanian (Late Cretaceous) bonebed, Saskatchewan, Canada". Palaeontology 53 (4): 903–944. doi:10.1111/j.1475-4983.2010.00969.x.
- ^ Vullo, Romain; Guinot, Guillaume; Barbe, Gérard (1 December 2016). "The first articulated specimen of the Cretaceous mackerel shark Haimirichia amonensis gen. nov. (Haimirichiidae fam. nov.) reveals a novel ecomorphological adaptation within the Lamniformes (Elasmobranchii)". Journal of Systematic Palaeontology. 14 (12): 1003–1024. Bibcode:2016JSPal..14.1003V. doi:10.1080/14772019.2015.1137983. ISSN 1477-2019. S2CID 85788544.