Berru

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Commune in Grand Est, France

Location of Berru

(2020–2026) Marie-Hélène Bastogne^[1]Area

13.65 km² (5.27 sq mi)Population

(2021)^[2]

609 • Density45/km² (120/sq mi)Time zoneUTC+01:00 (CET) • Summer (DST)UTC+02:00 (CEST)INSEE/Postal code

51052 /51420

Elevation275 m (902 ft)¹ French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Berru (French pronunciation: [beʁy]) is a commune in the Marne department in northeastern France.

Berru, along with the neighboring commune of Cernay-lès-Reims, 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.^[3]^[4]

Population

Historical population
Year	Pop.	±% p.a.
1968	287	—
1975	296	+0.44%
1982	320	+1.12%
1990	459	+4.61%
1999	454	−0.12%
2009	503	+1.03%
2014	513	+0.39%
2020	599	+2.62%
Source: INSEE^[5]

References

^ "Répertoire national des élus: les maires". data.gouv.fr, Plateforme ouverte des données publiques françaises (in French). 2 December 2020.
^ "Populations légales 2021". The National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies. 28 December 2023.
^ Simpson, George Gaylord (1936). "Census of Paleocene Mammals" (PDF). American Museum Novitates (848). American Museum of Natural History: 1–15. Retrieved 3 April 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. 30 (5). Society of Vertebrate Paleontology / Taylor & Francis: 1559–1578. doi:10.1080/02724634.2010.501440. S2CID 85220182. Retrieved 2 April 2013.
^ Population en historique depuis 1968, INSEE