Hyporhina

Hyporhina
Temporal range: Late EoceneMiddle Oligocene, 40–30 Ma
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Family: Rhineuridae
Genus: Hyporhina
Baur, 1893
Species
  • H. antiqua Baur, 1893 (type)
  • H. galbreathi Taylor, 1951

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.