Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences

Publications

Quinton PC, Speir L, Miller J, Ethington R and MacLeod KG (2018). Extreme heat in the Early Ordovician. PALAIOS 33:353‑360.

Quinton PC, Law S, MacLeod KG, Herrmann AD, Haynes JT and Leslie SA (2018). Testing the early Late Ordovician cool-water hypothesis with oxygen isotopes from conodont apatite. Geological Magazine 155:1727‑1741.

MacLeod KG, Quinton PC and Sepúlveda NMH (2018). Post-­impact, early Paleogene warming shown by oxygen isotopes in fish debris from El Kef, Tunisia. Science 360(6396):1467‑1469.

MacLeod KG, Quinton PC and Bassett DJ (2017). Warming and increased aridity during the earliest Triassic in the Karoo Basin, South Africa. Geology 45:483‑486.

Wright Z, Quinton PC, Martin E, Leslie SA, MacLeod KG and Herrmann AD (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 PC, Leslie SA, Herrmann AD and MacLeod KG (2016). Effects of extraction protocols on the oxygen isotope composition of conodont elements. Chemical Geology 431:36‑43.

Quinton PC, Herrmann AD, Leslie SA and MacLeod KG (2016). Carbon cycling across the southern margin of Laurentia during the Late Ordovician. Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology 458:63‑76.

Quinton PC, Percival IG, Zhen YY and MacLeod KG (2015). Factors influencing conodont apatite δ¹⁸O variability in the Ordovician: a case study from New South
Wales, Australia. Stratigraphy 12:3‑4.

Hughes KP, MacLeod KG, Haynes SJ, Quinton PC, Ellen ME and 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 PC and MacLeods KG (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 PC, Percival IG, Zhen YY and MacLeod KG (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 PC, Rygel MC and Levesque ER (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 AA, Schiffbauer JD and Quinton PC (2018). Late Ordovician phosphaticmicrofossil spheres from Rochester, Minnesota. NEGSA Abstracts with Programs 50(2).

Keough BM, King OA, Stimson MR, Quinton PC and Rygel MC (2018). Sequence stratigraphy of the late Carboniferous Clifton Formation, New Brunswick. NEGSA Abstracts with Programs 50(2).

Levesque ER, Rygel MC and Quinton PC (2018). Carbon isotopes and sea level history of the Madison Group Carbonates from Milligan Canyon, Montana. NEGSA Abstracts with Programs 50(2).

Herrmann AD, Quinton PC, Martin EE, Leslie SA, MacLeod KG and Robinet RM (2017). GICE GICE baby-­But was there ice. GSA Abstracts with Programs 49(6).

Quinton PC, Miller JM, Ethington RL and MacLeod KG (2016). Early Ordovician
climate fluctuations inferred from conodont oxygen isotopes. GSA Abstracts with Programs 48(7).

MacLeod KG, Quinton PC, Sepúlveda J and 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 SE, Euker BC, Leslie SA, Quinton PC, MacLeod KG and Herrmann AD (2016). Testing the Late Ordovician pre‑GICE warm water carbonate hypothesis in Alabama. Southeastern GSA Abstracts with Programs 48(3).

Quinton PC, MacLeod KG, Leslie SA and Herrmann AD (2015). Inferences on conodont ecology from oxygen isotope paleothermometry. Midwest Geobiology. Oral

MacLeod KG, Quinton PC and 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 PC, Herrmann AD, Leslie SA and MacLeod KG (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 PC, 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 KA, MacLeod KG and Quinton PC (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 PC, 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 KG, Quinton PC and Bassett DJ (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 PC and MacLeod KG (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