V. nocturna was described based a right mandibular ramus (GSI-D 221) collected from the Nagri Formation two miles northeast of Kadirpur in the Attock District of the Salt Range.

An additional fossil, a partial right maxilla (GSI-D 218) collected near Bahitta in the Jhelum District of the Salt Range, was also described and referred to the species.

V. sarcophaga was based on an associated left and right maxillae (GSI-D 217) collected by Vinayak Rao from the Chinji Formation south of Kotal Kund in the Jelum District.

[1] Pilgrim theorized that Vinayakia represented an aberrant line descended from Proailurus, with V. sarcophaga ancestral to V. nocturna.

[1] Edwin Colbert, in 1935, followed Pilgrim's classification of Vinayakia as a proailurine, but considered the genus "of little value" due to the fragmentary nature of the fossils.