Haţeg
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| County | Hunedoara County | ||
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| Status | Town | ||
| Mayor | Nicolae Timiş, National Liberal Party, since 2004 | ||
| Population (2002) | 12,507 | ||
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| Web site | http://www.primaria-hateg.rdslink.ro/ | ||
Haţeg (pronunciation in Romanian: /'hɑː.tseɪɡ/; German: Wallenthal; Hungarian: Hatszeg) 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 and birds.
The Haţeg Island was an island during the Cretaceous where a dwarf subspecies of Europasaurus 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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