Cernay-lès-Reims
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| Cernay-lès-Reims | |
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  Cernay-lès-Reims | |
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Location within Champagne-Ardenne region  Cernay-lès-Reims | |
| Coordinates: 49°09′19″N 4°03′41″E / 49.1552°N 4.0615°ECoordinates: 49°09′19″N 4°03′41″E / 49.1552°N 4.0615°E | |
| Country | France |
| Region | Champagne-Ardenne |
| Department | Marne |
| Arrondissement | Reims |
| Canton | Beine-Nauroy |
| Intercommunality | Communauté de communes du Mont de Berru |
| Government | |
| • Mayor (2008–2014) | Patrick Bedek |
| Area | |
| • Land1 | 16.49 km2 (6.37 sq mi) |
| Population (2006) | |
| • Population2 | 1,307 |
| • Population2 Density | 79/km2 (210/sq mi) |
| INSEE/Postal code | 51105 / 51420 |
| Elevation |
96–217 m (315–712 ft) (avg. 140 m or 460 ft) |
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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]
References
- ↑ Simpson, George Gaylord (1936). "Census of Paleocene Mammals". American Museum Novitates (American Museum of Natural History) (848): 1–15. Retrieved April 3, 2013.
- ↑ 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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