Yes they are. They are flattened burrowing sea urchins.
none since sand dollars are actually skeletons of a type of sea animal.
Sand dollars are a type of Sea urchin which are small, spiny, globular animals that compose part of class Echinoidea.
Echinodermata (like sea urchins, sea stars, and sand dollars)
The structural deference between them is that Sea urchins are more globular whereas sand dollars are flattened. Unlike sea urchins, the sand dollars burrow themselves when threatened. Sand dollars have anus opening at their back side whereas the sea urchins have it at the top.
Yes they are. It's kind of creepy.
In the sea, the sand dollars are found in groups on a soft muddy or sandy sea bed.
Sand dollars are like God's eyes in the sea
Yes, it is.
More convex, short-spined sand dollars are called sea biscuits. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition | 2008
sea stars, sea urchins, sand dollars, and sea cucumbers.
Four examples of echinoderm animals are: 1. Sea Stars 2. Sea Urchins 3. Sand Dollars 4. Sea Lilies
Sand dollars has a rigid skeleton known as a "test", but these are not backbones so they are invertebrates. Vertebrates are animals that have spinal chords, heads and backbones. Sand dollars are animals related to sea urchins, in a different group called Echinoids. These have none of spinal chords, heads or backbones, so cannot be vertebrates.