Usage:
No current usage.
(Rocks of †/Auburn Chert (MO) reallocated to Plattin Limestone. See Plattin.)
[Preoccupied. Name previously applied to Auburn Shale by Beede (1898) in KS.]
Geologic age:
Late Ordovician (Mohawkian)
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type locality not stated. Forms surface stone of Auburn, Lincoln Co., east-central MO (Rowley, 1908).
AAPG geologic province:
Lincoln anticline
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