What is Hateg Island?
[[File:Zalmoxes dichotomy.jpg|thumb|right|200px|A reconstruction of ''[[Zalmoxes robustus]]''. This dinosaur's fossils, dating from [[Upper Cretaceous]], were found in the region of Haţeg]] '''Hațeg Island''' was a large offshore [[island]] in the [[Tethys Sea]] during the late [[Cretaceous]].<ref>Benton M.J. ''et al'' 2010. Dinosaurs and the island rule: the dwarfed dinosaurs from Haţeg Island. ''Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology''. '''293'''(3-4): 438–454. [http://www.dinochecker.com/papers/dwarf_%20dinos_of_hateg_island_BENTON_et_al_2010.pdf] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110710130307/http://www.dinochecker.com/papers/dwarf_%20dinos_of_hateg_island_BENTON_et_al_2010.pdf |date=2011-07-10 }}</ref> It was in an area now around modern-day [[Hațeg]], [[Hunedoara County]], [[Romania]].<ref>{{cite journal|author=Csikia Z. & M.J. Benton 2010. |title=An island of dwarfs — reconstructing the late Cretaceous Hațeg palaeoecosystem|journal = Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology|year=2010|volume=293|issue=3–4 |pages=265–270|doi=10.1016/j.palaeo.2010.05.032|bibcode=2010PPP...293..265C}}</ref> [[Upper Cretaceous]] [[fossil]]s of small-sized [[dinosaur]]s have been found in the former island's [[rocks]].<ref>{{cite journal|last=Grigorescu|first=D.|title=Rediscovery of a 'forgotten land': The last three decades of research on the dinosaur-bearing deposits from the Hațeg Basin|journal=Acta Palaeontologica Romaniae|volume=5|year=2005|pages=191–204}}</ref><ref>Csiki-Sava Z. ''et al'' 2015. The east side story – the Transylvanian latest Cretaceous continental vertebrate record and its implications for understanding Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary events. ''Cretaceous Research'' 57 (1) 662–698. [http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0195667115300616]</ref> The island was formed mainly by [[tectonic]] uplift during the early [[Alps|Alpine]] [[orogeny]] towards the end of the Cretaceous. There is no real present-day analog, but the island of [[Hainan]] (off the coast of [[China