Cernay-lès-Reims explained

Cernay-lès-Reims
Commune Status:Commune
Image Coat Of Arms:Blason Cernay-lès-Reims.svg
Arrondissement:Reims
Canton:Reims-8
Insee:51105
Postal Code:51420
Mayor:Patrick Bedek[1]
Term:2020 - 2026
Intercommunality:CU Grand Reims
Coordinates:49.1552°N 4.0615°W
Elevation M:140
Elevation Min M:96
Elevation Max M:217
Area Km2:16.49

Cernay-lès-Reims (in French pronounced as /sɛʁnɛ lɛ ʁɛ̃s/, literally Cernay near 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.[2] [3]

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Répertoire national des élus: les maires. data.gouv.fr, Plateforme ouverte des données publiques françaises. 13 September 2022. fr.
  2. Simpson. George Gaylord. George Gaylord Simpson. 1936. Census of Paleocene Mammals. American Museum Novitates. 848. 1–15 . American Museum of Natural History. 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. . 30 . 5 . 1559–1578 . . 10.1080/02724634.2010.501440 . 85220182. April 2, 2013 .