Well if you want to get technical about it, Sauria is a suborder which includes snakes, crocodiles, dinosaurs, and birds as well as lizards. The fact is that all lizards ARE saurials, regardless of how closely lizards are related to dinosaurs.

But y'know, you're kinda starting to get on my nerves, so I'm not going to discuss this with you anymore. Have fun holding onto the hope that Malack turns out to be a fiendish half-vampire yuan-ti or whatever weird theory you have. I'm bored now.