“…Ostracodes from New Zealand and its surrounding seas have been investigated since the nineteenth century (e.g., Brady, 1866Brady, , 1880Brady, , 1898. Most of the research is systematic descriptions (Hornibrook, 1952;Swanson, 1969Swanson, , 1980Ayress, 1990Ayress, , 1993Ayress, , 1995Ayress and Swanson, 1991;Milhau, 1993;Swanson and Ayress, 1999;Guise, 2001), assemblages and their distribution in the modern seas and bays (Swanson, 1979a(Swanson, , 1979bHayward, 1981Hayward, , 1982Ayress et al, 1997;Eager, 1999;Hayward, 2007, 2012), and paleoenvironments during the Miocene (Milhau, 1991) and the late Quaternary (Swanson and van der Lingen, 1997;Hayward et al, 2008). On the other hand, few fossil ostracode data for the Pliocene and early and middle Pleistocene have been reported in and around New Zealand.…”