This review gives an information on the oxygen isotopic composition of car-bonate and utility of paleotemperature equations to reconstruct the paleoenvironment in the late Quaternary paleoclimatic studies. The introduc-tion of various paleotemperature equations is described with respect to the de-velopment and usefulness. In addition the calculation of paleotemperature in the paleoceanographic and paleoclimatic research is constrained to provide more precise and correct approach in the interpretation of paleotemperature.