Cernay-lès-Reims

Cernay-lès-Reims
Commune
Cernay-lès-Reims
Location within Grand Est region
Cernay-lès-Reims
Coordinates: 49°09′19″N 4°03′41″E / 49.1552°N 4.0615°E / 49.1552; 4.0615Coordinates: 49°09′19″N 4°03′41″E / 49.1552°N 4.0615°E / 49.1552; 4.0615
Country France
Region Grand Est
Department Marne
Arrondissement Reims
Canton Reims-8
Intercommunality CU Grand Reims
Government
 • Mayor (2008–2014) Patrick Bedek
Area1 16.49 km2 (6.37 sq mi)
Population (2006)2 1,307
 • Density 79/km2 (210/sq mi)
Time zone UTC+1 (CET)
 • Summer (DST) UTC+2 (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 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.

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

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.[1][2]

See also

References

  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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