Cernay-lès-Reims

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{{Infobox French commune

|name = Cernay-lès-Reims

|commune status = Commune

|image = Mairie de Cernay 162.jpg

|caption = The town hall in Cernay-lès-Reims

|image coat of arms = Blason Cernay-lès-Reims.svg

|arrondissement = Reims

|canton = Reims-8

|INSEE = 51105

|postal code = 51420

|mayor = Patrick Bedek{{cite web|title=Répertoire national des élus: les maires|url=https://www.data.gouv.fr/fr/datasets/r/2876a346-d50c-4911-934e-19ee07b0e503|publisher=data.gouv.fr, Plateforme ouverte des données publiques françaises|date=13 September 2022|language=fr}}

|term = 2020–2026

|intercommunality = CU Grand Reims

|coordinates = {{coord|49.1552|4.0615|format=dms|display=inline,title}}

|elevation m = 140

|elevation min m = 96

|elevation max m = 217

|area km2 = 16.49

|population = {{France metadata Wikidata|population_total}}

|population date = {{France metadata Wikidata|population_as_of}}

|population footnotes = {{France metadata Wikidata|population_footnotes}}

}}

Cernay-lès-Reims ({{IPA|fr|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.{{cite journal |last1= Simpson|first1= George Gaylord|author-link= George Gaylord Simpson|year= 1936|title= Census of Paleocene Mammals|journal= American Museum Novitates|issue= 848|pages= 1–15 |publisher= American Museum of Natural History|url= http://digitallibrary.amnh.org/dspace/bitstream/handle/2246/2153//v2/dspace/ingest/pdfSource/nov/N0848.pdf?sequence=1 |access-date=April 3, 2013}}{{cite journal |last1= Ladevèze|first1= Sandrine|last2= Missiaen|first2= Pieter|last3=Smith |first3=Thierry |date= September 2010|title= First Skull of Orthaspidotherium Edwardsi (Mammalia 'Condylarthra') from the Late Paleocene of Berru (France) and Phylogenetic Affinities of the Enigmatic European Family Pleuraspidotheriidae|journal= Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology |volume=30 |issue=5 |pages= 1559–1578 |publisher= Society of Vertebrate Paleontology / Taylor & Francis |doi=10.1080/02724634.2010.501440 |s2cid= 85220182|url= https://www.academia.edu/1577168 |access-date=April 2, 2013 }}