Bibliography of Viive Viira

Viive Viira (1933–2025) was a well-known expert on early Palaeozoic conodonts, who worked from 1960s to 2020s at the Institute of Geology, Estonian Academy of Sciences, and later Tallinn University of Technology.

Viive’s scientific career began in the late 1960s when she published her first papers on Ordovician conodonts from Estonia. She defended her Cand. Sci. (PhD) thesis on the same topic in 1970 and, a few years later, published the monograph “Ordovician Conodonts of the East Baltic Region”. This work established the basis for Ordovician conodont biostratigraphy in the region and continues to be cited today. At the same time, Viive started studying Silurian conodonts. She contributed to the collective monograph “The Silurian of Estonia” published in 1970, and focused on the upper Silurian conodont biostratigraphy in several subsequent works. Over the course of her career, Viive authored more than a hundred publications on conodont taxonomy, biostratigraphy, palaeoecology, taphonomy, and diversity patterns, with her final paper published in 2022 on the Ludfordian integrated bio- and chemostratigraphy of the Ohesaare reference drill core from Saaremaa Island, Estonia.