Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences

Publications

Quinton, P.C., Speir, L., Miller, J., Ethington, R., MacLeod, K.G., 2018. Extreme heat in the Early Ordovician. PALAIOS 33:353‑360.

Quinton, P.C., Law, S., MacLeod, K.G., Herrmann, A.D., Haynes, J.T., Leslie, S.A., 2018. Testing the early Late Ordovician cool-water hypothesis with oxygen isotopes from conodont apatite. Geological Magazine 155:1727‑1741.

MacLeod, K.G., Quinton, P.C., Sepúlveda, Negra, M.H., 2018. Post-­impact, early Paleogene warming shown by oxygen isotopes in fish debris from El Kef, Tunisia. Science 360(6396):1467‑1469.

MacLeod, K.G., Quinton, P.C., Bassett, D.J., 2017. Warming and increased aridity during the earliest Triassic in the Karoo Basin, South Africa. Geology 45:483‑486.

Wright, Z., Quinton, P.C., Martin, E., Leslie, S.A., MacLeod, K.G., Herrmann, A.D., 2017. Neodymium isotope ratios and a positive δ¹³C excursion: interpreting the connection between oceanographic and climate changes during the early Late Ordovician of Laurentia. Stratigraphy 14:443‑456.

Quinton, P.C., Leslie, S.A., Herrmann, A.D., MacLeod, K.G., 2016. Effects of extraction protocols on the oxygen isotope composition of conodont elements. Chemical Geology 431:36‑43.

Quinton, P.C., Herrmann, A.D., Leslie, S.A., MacLeod, K.G., 2016. Carbon cycling across the southern margin of Laurentia during the Late Ordovician. Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology 458:63‑76.

Quinton, P.C., Percival, I.G., Zhen, Y.Y., MacLeod, K.G., 2015. Factors influencing conodont apatite δ¹⁸O variability in the Ordovician: a case study from New South
Wales, Australia. Stratigraphy 12:3‑4.

Hughes, K.P., MacLeod, K.G., Haynes, S.J., Quinton, P.C., Ellen, M.E., Ethington, R., 2015. A paired neodymium and oxygen isotopic perspective on paleoceanographic changes across the Dubuque/Maquoketa contact in the Late Ordovician Laurentian Seaway. Stratigraphy 12:3‑4.

Quinton, P.C., MacLeod, K.G., 2014. Oxygen isotopes from conodont apatite of the midcontinent, US: Implications for Late Ordovician climate evolution. Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology 404:57‑66.

CONFERENCE PAPERS

Quinton, P.C., Percival, I.G., Zhen, Y.Y., MacLeod, K.G., 2015. Ordovician temperature trends: constraints from δ¹⁸O analysis of conodonts from New South Wales, Australia. 12th International Conference on the Ordovician System. Stratigraphy 12(2):61-66. Conference Paper

INVITED TALKS

2016: Late Ordovician climate as inferred from stable carbon and oxygen isotopes. St. Lawrence University, Department of Geology.

2014: Constraining the Ordovician climate with stable isotopes. James Madison University, Department of Geology and Environmental Sciences.

2013: More fun with conodonts: telling the temperature of oceans in the Ordovician. New South Wales Geological Survey, Maitland, Australia.

GRANTS/FELLOWSHIPS

2013: NSF East Asia and Pacific Island Summer Fellowship Australia, $5000

AWARDS

2016: UUP Professional Development Grant: $1000
2016: Department of Geological Sciences Outstanding Graduate Student Award
2014: University of Missouri Graduate Professional Travel Award
2013: James Stitt Memorial Fellowship and Maurice Mehl Geology Scholarship
2013-2012: Walter D. Keller Scholarship
2012-2011: Carl B. Rexroad Geology Scholarship
2011: Wallace Howe Fellowship

REVIEWER

2017-present: GSA Bulletin
2015-present: Paleogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

PRESENTATIONS/ABSTRACTS

Quinton, P.C., Rygel, M.C., Levesque, E.R., 2018. Controls on carbon cycling in the Early Mississippian, Carbon isotopes from the Madison Group carbonates of Montana. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs. 50(6).

Miller, A.A., Schiffbauer, J.D., Quinton, P.C., 2018. Late Ordovician phosphaticmicrofossil spheres from Rochester, Minnesota. NEGSA Abstracts with Programs 50(2).

Keough, B.M., King, O.A., Stimson, M.R., Quinton, P.C., Rygel, M.C., 2018. Sequence stratigraphy of the late Carboniferous Clifton Formation, New Brunswick. NEGSA Abstracts with Programs 50(2).

Levesque, E.R., Rygel, M.C., Quinton, P.C., 2018. Carbon isotopes and sea level history of the Madison Group Carbonates from Milligan Canyon, Montana. NEGSA Abstracts with Programs 50(2).

Herrmann, A.D., Quinton, P.C., Martin, E.E., Leslie, S.A., MacLeod, K.G., Robinet, R.M., 2017. GICE GICE baby-­But was there ice. GSA Abstracts with Programs 49(6).

Quinton, P.C., Miller, J.M., Ethington, R.L., MacLeod, K.G., 2016. Early Ordovician
climate fluctuations inferred from conodont oxygen isotopes. GSA Abstracts with Programs 48(7).

MacLeod, K.G., Quinton, P.C., Sepúlveda, J., Negra, H., 2016. Temperature change across the Cretaceous/Paleogene boundary inferred from oxygen isotopic ratios in fish debris from El Kef, Tunisi. GSA Abstracts with Programs 48(7).

Law, S.E., Euker, B.C., Leslie, S.A., Quinton, P.C., MacLeod, K.G., Herrmann, A.D., 2016. Testing the Late Ordovician pre‑GICE warm water carbonate hypothesis in Alabama. Southeastern GSA Abstracts with Programs 48(3).

Quinton, P.C., MacLeod, K.G., Leslie, S.A., Herrmann, A.D., 2015. Inferences on conodont ecology from oxygen isotope paleothermometry. Midwest Geobiology. Oral

MacLeod, K.G., Quinton, P.C., Sepúlveda, J., 2015. Temperature change across the K/T boundary inferred from oxygen isotopic ratios in fish debris from El Kef, Tunisia. Midwest Geobiology.

Quinton, P.C., Herrmann, A.D., Leslie, S.A., MacLeod, K.G., 2015. Evidence of warming during the early Katian-­Conodont apatite δ¹⁸O and bulk carbonate δ¹³C records from the Upper Mississippi Valley, US. 12th International Conference on the Ordovician System. Stratigraphy 12(2). Oral

Quinton, P.C., Herrmann, A., Leslie, S., and MacLeod, K., 2014. Bulk carbonate δ¹³C record from Tidwell Hollow, Alabama: A search for the GICE in the southeast US. GSA Abstracts with Programs 46(7). Oral

Hoppe, K.A., MacLeod, K.G., and Quinton, P.C., 2014. Tracing migration patterns and climate change using isotope analyses of prehistoric bison bones and teeth. GSA Abstracts with Programs 46(7).

Law, S., Quinton, P.C., Leslie, S., MacLeod, K., and Herrmann, A., 2014. Carbonate δ¹³C and preliminary conodont δ¹⁸O from the upper Stones River Formation and lower Nashville Formation (Late Ordovician) near Gadsden, AL. GSA Abstracts with Programs 46(7).

MacLeod, K.G., Quinton, P.C., and, Bassett, D.J., 2014. Oxygen isotopic record of dicynodont tusks across the Permo‑Triassic boundary in the Karoo Basin, South Africa. GSA Abstracts with Programs 46(7).

Quinton, P.C., MacLeod, K.G., 2012. Oxygen isotopes from conodont apatite of the mid-­continent, US: Implications for the Late Ordovician Climate Evolution. GSA Abstracts with Programs 44(7). Poster