Bibliography of Armin Öpik

Armin Öpik was an Estonian paleontologist, he spent the first half of his career in Estonia and the second half in Australia. He stuied geology at the Tartu University, in 1930 he became professor of geology and paleontology and director of the Geological Institute and Museum, until 1944. The period from 1925 to 1944 was also one of most intensive research productivity, with the publication on almost all aspects of Estonian geology and palaeontology. Öpik's published on stratigraphic correlation, facies distribution, paleogeography and biostratigraphy of the Cambrian and lower Ordovician in Estonia. He studied Ordovician brachiopods, ostracodes and trilobites.He emigrated to Australia in 1948 and was employed as geologist at the Bureau of Mineral Resources, Canberra until his retirement in 1964.  His major work in Australia was on the Cambrian and Early Ordovician stratigraphy and palaeontology of northern Australia. He described 94 new genera and 294 new species of Cambrian trilobites.