蜗牛对环境变化反应敏感,是研究气候变化的良好载体,被认为是黄土古环境变化研究的“指示性动物”.本文在前人研究工作基础上,总结了陆生蜗牛壳体化石在黄土古环境研究中的应用.概述了其在年代学、属种组合以及同位素组成三个方面的研究现状和存在的问题,希望能对未来的研究提供一定的参考价值. “,”Land snails are very sensitive to change researches, such that they are regard environmental changes and are good materials for climate ed as “indicator animals” in loess and paleoenvironmental studies. Here I summarize the former results in loess and paleoenvironmental researches by using snail shells, and give a general introduction of current research status and some open questions mainly from three aspects, i. e. , studies on the 14C dating and assemblages of fossil land snail shells and isotope compositions of modern and fossil land snail shells. The author hope that the review will be helpful in the future studies.