Hyporhina is an extinct genus of amphisbaenians or worm lizards that lived from the Late Eocene to the Middle Oligocene (approximately 40 to 30 million years ago) in what is now the western United States. It includes two species, the type species H. antiqua and the species H. galbreathi, both from the White River Formation in eastern Wyoming and northeastern Colorado. A third species, H. tertia, was named in 1972 but later synonymized with H. galbreathi. Paleontologist Georg Baur named the genus in 1893, making it one of the first prehistoric amphisbaenians to be described. Baur placed it in its own family, Hyporhinidae, because it possessed eye sockets that are enclosed at the back by postorbital bars, a feature that living amphisbaenians lack. However, more recent studies have placed it