Element Description: Continent

The full, unabbreviated name of the continent on which the organism was collected or observed.

Comments

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Linking countries to continents

It would be useful to give a link that will determine unambiguously which countries belong to which continent. Is there a standard (ISO or otherwise) for this? It would be a rare label that would contain such information in the entomological world at least, and in a paleontological extension, problematic: do you put the continent as it exists today where the "specimen" was found or do you include hypotheses of the state of continents in another era? -- GailKampmeier - 12 Nov 2008