 The type species of "Dinogorgon rubidgei" was discovered on Wellwood farm, a farm owned by the grandfather of Bruce Rubidge, Sidney H. Rubidge, outside of Graaff-Reinet.The fossil was likely recovered by Haughton himself sometime in the 1930s or 1940s, and were only described by British paleonologist, Sidney H. Haughton, and James Kitching between 1953 and 1965.