Berru

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Berru
Commune
Berru
Location within Grand Est region
Berru
Coordinates: 49°16′21″N 4°09′09″E / 49.2725°N 4.1525°E / 49.2725; 4.1525Coordinates: 49°16′21″N 4°09′09″E / 49.2725°N 4.1525°E / 49.2725; 4.1525
Country France
Region Grand Est
Department Marne
Arrondissement Reims
Canton Bourgogne
Intercommunality CU Grand Reims
Government
 • Mayor (2008–2014) Jean-Jacques Morisot
Area1 13.65 km2 (5.27 sq mi)
Population (2009)2 503
 • Density 37/km2 (95/sq mi)
Time zone UTC+1 (CET)
 • Summer (DST) UTC+2 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code 51052 /51420

1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

2 Population without double counting: residents of multiple communes (e.g., students and military personnel) only counted once.

Berru is a commune in the Marne department in northeastern France.

Berru, along with the neighboring commune of Cernay-lès-Reims, 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.[1][2]

Population

Historical population
YearPop.±%
1962 279—    
1968 287+2.9%
1975 296+3.1%
1982 320+8.1%
1990 459+43.4%
1999 454−1.1%
2006 497+9.5%
2007 503+1.2%
2009 503+0.0%

See also

Notes

  1. ↑ Simpson, George Gaylord (1936). "Census of Paleocene Mammals" (PDF). American Museum Novitates. American Museum of Natural History (848): 1–15. Retrieved April 3, 2013.
  2. ↑ 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.

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