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.

Treatment

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.

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No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.

Taxonomy

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Chordata
Class	Mammalia
Order	Cetacea
Family	Ziphiidae

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Chordata
Class	Mammalia
Order	Cetacea
Family	Ziphiidae
Genus	Dagonodum

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