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) Author Benjamin Ramassamy text Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 2016 178 381 409 journal article 10.1111/zoj.12418 02916f3b-c610-4efb-8d3c-fa389a3bf631 192977 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.