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]