Dagonodum, Benjamin Ramassamy, 2016

Benjamin Ramassamy, 2016, Description of a new long-snouted beaked whale from the Late Miocene of Denmark: evolution of suction feeding and sexual dimorphism in the Ziphiidae (Cetacea: Odontoceti), Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 178, pp. 381-409 : 382

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.1111/zoj.12418

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4426019

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03AB87AC-4F2B-FFAB-D7F8-F938FE78FEF1

treatment provided by

Plazi

scientific name

Dagonodum
status

gen. nov.

DAGONODUM GEN. NOV.

Type species. Dagonodum mojnum sp. nov.

Diagnosis. As for the type species.

Etymology of genus name. Dagon refers to the Canaanite divinity of crop fertility pictured as a fish-god and a fictive divinity related to the deep sea created by the American author H. P. Lovecraft. Stratigraphic and geographic distribution. See Horizon and locality section.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Mammalia

Order

Cetacea

Family

Ziphiidae

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