Seafloor Maps

NOAA Ocean Explorer Link

Sandbox

http://www.allsandboxes.com/sand-and-water-tables/sandtypesarticle.cfm

The Common Sand Dollar (E. Parma)

Echinarachnius parma

Animal Diversity Web

The Eccentric Sand Dollar

The Biogeography of the Western Sand Dollar by Karen Vitulano

Newspaper Article on the Eccentric Sand Dollar (Western Sand Dollar)

Sand Dollar Jewelry

Click on the picture.

Seashore Pocket Guide

Seashores: A Guide to Animals and Plants along the Beaches (A Golden Nature Guide) Paperback by Herbert Spencer Zim (Author), Lester Ingle (Author), Dorothea Barlowe (Illustrator), Sy Barlowe (Illustrator) , 1955.

A Notched Sand Dollar

Encope michelini - Five Notched Sand Dollar

For More Information - Click Here

Sand Dollar Family: Rotulidae

Rotulidae Sand Dollar Family - Genera: Rotula, Heliophora, Rotulidae (Native to the African Atlantic Coast)

Rotulidae

Classification System - Domain: Eukarya; Kingdom: Animalia; Subkingdom: Eumetazoa; Superphylum: Deuterostomia; Phylum: Echinodermata; Class: Echinodea; Subclass: Euchinoidea; Superorder: Gnathostomata; Order: Clypeasteroida; Suborder: Rotulina; Family: Rotulidae; Genera: Rotula, Heliophora, Rotulidae

New Zealand Sand Dollar - Arachnoides zelandia

Snapper Biscuit

Echinoderm

    Echinoderm Link

I get to dog sit Urchin.

Sand Dollar poem for my niece.

Sand Dollars are very fragile, so you have to be very careful with them because they will break easy. I took one of the common verses about the Sand Dollar and made a poem that you will find below, for my niece. I found one of the common verses to prelude into another common verse about footprints in the sand, but I did not do a prelude poem leading into that other verse about footprints in the sand. I will do it later. Hope you like this.

WITH MY SAND DOLLAR

I WOULD LIKE TO TELL YOU ABOUT

JESUS CHRIST AND REBECCA AT THE WELL

FOUND IN THIS LOVELY SHELL

LOOK CLOSER AND

YOU WILL SEA

FOUR EAR RINGS AND A STONE

MADE BY A ROMAN'S HAND

ON ONE SIDE IS THE EASTER LILY

ON THE OTHER SIDE IS

THE POINSETTIA ETCHED

A STAR IN THE CENTER

TO THE SHEPHERDS APPEARED

A STAR THAT TOOK THEM TO ISREAL

THIS REMINDS US OF JESUS CHRIST,

OUR HAPPY CHRISTMASTIDE

THE LOVELY SHELL BROKE OPEN,

ACCIDENTLY ONE DAY

RELEASED WERE FIVE WHITE DOVES

NOWHERE TO GO, BUT TO TELL THE NEWS

THIS POEM

WAS LEFT FOR US

TO UNDERSTAND

WHEN A GIFT BREAKS

WHEN JESUS HEARD OF THIS

ACCIDENTAL GIFT BREAKING

HE RELEASED FIVE WHITE DOVES

BY THE BROKEN SHELL

HE MADE A LOVELY BOTTLE

NOW WHAT YOU SEA ARE

FOUR EAR RINGS, A STONE,

A BOTTLE, AND FIVE WHITE DOVES

ALL MADE BY AND FROM A ROMAN'S HAND

I can’t find, on line, a hand blown glass example of a Sand Dollar Bottle with Chain.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glass_bottles

http://www.handblownglass.net/


 What a pretty picure of hand blown glass below - it could be Jellyfish.
http://www.sxc.hu/pic/m/b/bo/bowlbino/293008_hand_blown_glass.jpg

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jellyfish

Sand Dollar Cookies

Want to see what a Sand Dollar Cookie looks like?  Follow this link below.

http://www.coastaldecorshop.com/page/coastal/PROD/Food/GLL-LegendPail

How Are Coins Made?

Some links to help answer your questions about how coins are made and how that realtes to a Sand Dollar's name.

http://www.usmint.gov/kids/coinNews/mintingProcess/

http://www.usmint.gov/kids/cartoons/birthOfACoin/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sand_dollar

A Starfish (Sea Star) is not a Sand Dollar

This is a picture of a Starfish (also called a Sea Star); it is not a Sand Dollar.

http://animals.nationalgeographic.com/animals/invertebrates/starfish.html

Folly Beach, South Carolina (USA)

Sand Dollar or Keyhole Urchin (Mellita quinquiesperforata)

http://www.follybeach.com/seashells.php

Types of Sand Dollars

Sand Dollar Types

1.  Arrowhead

2.  Flat Round

3.  Sea Biscuit

4.  Pancake

5.  Sea Gopher

6.  ____________

7.  ____________

8.  ____________


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sand_dollar