Haţeg

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Haţeg
Coat of arms
Location of Haţeg
Coordinates: 45°36′27″N 22°57′0″E / 45.6075, 22.95
Country	Romania
County	Hunedoara County
Status	Town
Government
- Mayor	Nicolae Timiş (National Liberal Party)
Population (2002)
- Total	12,507
Time zone	EET (UTC+2)
- Summer (DST)	EEST (UTC+3)
Website: http://www.primaria-hateg.rdslink.ro/

Haţeg (pronunciation in Romanian: /'hɑː.tseɪɡ/; German: Wallenthal; Hungarian: Hátszeg) is a town in Hunedoara County, Romania with a population of 12,507.

Ţara Haţegului (Hateg County) is the region around Haţeg town. The fossils found in Hateg County span over 300 million years of Earth's geologic history, showing tropical coral reefs and volcanic island in the Tethys Sea, dinosaurs, primitive mammals, birds, and flying reptiles (such as Hatzegopteryx, which was named for the region).

The Haţeg Island was an island during the Cretaceous Period where a dwarf species of sauropod dinosaur, Europasaurus holgeri, lived up to their extinction at the end of Cretaceous. Baron Franz Nopcsa, published articles about these Mesozoic era archosaurs on Haţeg Island. His studies led to his theory of insular dwarfism, the notion that "limited resources" on small islands can lead to a down-sizing of the indigenous vertebrate animals.

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• Haţeg dinosaurs

v • d • e Municipalities and Towns of Hunedoara County (alphabetical order by locality) Aninoasa • Brad • Călan • Deva • Geoagiu • Haţeg • Hunedoara • Lupeni • Orăştie • Petrila • Petroşani • Simeria • Uricani • Vulcan