''Rolfodon goliath'' is an extinct species of large frilled shark that lived during the Late Campanian stage of the Late Cretaceous in Angola's southern Benguela Basin. It was described by

Miguel Telles Antunes Dr. Miguel Telles Antunes (born 11 January 1937; Lisbon) is a famous Portuguese academic, specializing in paleontology, zooarchaeology, and geology. Antunes is a ranking member of various institutions, including the Lisbon Academy of Sciences, N ...

and Henri Cappetta in 2002 during the beginning stages of the PaleoAngola project. Originally it was described as a species belonging to the genus ''

Chlamydoselachus ''Chlamydoselachus'' is a genus of sharks and the sole extant member of the family (biology), family Chlamydoselachidae, in the order (biology), order Hexanchiformes. It contains two extant and several extinct species. The most widely known speci ...

''; Cappetta, Morrison & Adnet (2019) transferred it to the chlamydoselachid genus ''Rolfodon''. The holotype, MUS ANG 23, is rather large. This tooth is about 20mm high, and is characterised by straightened, upright cusps with smooth enameloid which lack ornamentation. Carlsen, A.W. & Cuny, G. 2014. A study of the sharks and rays from the Lillebælt Clay (Early–Middle Eocene) of Denmark, and their palaeoecology. © 2014 by Bulletin of the Geological Society of Denmark, Vol. 62, pp. 39–88. ISSN 2245-7070.
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