Cernay-lès-Reims

Cernay-lès-Reims is a commune in the Marne department in north-eastern France.

Cernay-lès-Reims
Commune
The town hall in Cernay-lès-Reims
Coat of arms
Location of Cernay-lès-Reims
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Coordinates: 49°09′19″N 4°03′41″E
Country	France
Region	Grand Est
Department	Marne
Arrondissement	Reims
Canton	Reims-8
Intercommunality	CU Grand Reims
Government
• Mayor (2008–2014)	Patrick Bedek
Area ^1	16.49 km^2 (6.37 sq mi)
Population  (2017-01-01)[1]	1,426
• Density	86/km^2 (220/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code	51105 /51420
Elevation	96–217 m (315–712 ft) (avg. 140 m or 460 ft)
^1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km^2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Cernay-lès-Reims, along with the neighboring commune of Berru, is notable in the literature of paleontology as the site of a geologic formation (part of the Paris Basin) that has yielded a significant number of Paleocene-strata fossils.[2][3]

See also

• Communes of the Marne department

References

1. "Populations légales 2017". INSEE. Retrieved 6 January 2020.
2. Simpson, George Gaylord (1936). "Census of Paleocene Mammals" (PDF). American Museum Novitates. American Museum of Natural History (848): 1–15. Retrieved April 3, 2013.
3. Ladevèze, Sandrine; Missiaen, Pieter; Smith, Thierry (September 2010). "First Skull of Orthaspidotherium Edwardsi (Mammalia 'Condylarthra') from the Late Paleocene of Berru (France) and Phylogenetic Affinities of the Enigmatic European Family Pleuraspidotheriidae". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. Society of Vertebrate Paleontology / Taylor & Francis. 30 (5): 1559–1578. doi:10.1080/02724634.2010.501440. Retrieved April 2, 2013.