''Roulletia'' is an extinct genus of

sand shark Sand sharks, also known as sand tiger sharks, gray nurse sharks or ragged tooth sharks, are Lamniformes, mackerel sharks of the family (biology), family Odontaspididae. They are found worldwide in temperate and tropical waters. The three specie ...

s (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 The Cenomanian is, in the ICS' geological timescale, the oldest or earliest age of the Late Cretaceous Epoch or the lowest stage of the Upper Cretaceous Series. An age is a unit of geochronology; it is a unit of time; the stage is a unit in the s ...

of what is now France. The genus was named after its type locality,

Roullet-Saint-Estèphe Roullet-Saint-Estèphe () is a commune in the Charente department in southwestern France. Population See also *Communes of the Charente department The following is a list of the 364 communes of the Charente department of France. The comm ...

, while the species epithet honours Michel Bureau, an amateur paleontologist 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 Canada by Charlie J. Underwood and Stephen L. Cumbaa in 2010. The species epithet refers to the country in which it was discovered. 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.

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{{Taxonbar, from=Q7370951 Odontaspididae Late Cretaceous fish of North America Cretaceous fish of Europe Fossil taxa described in 2007